Covariate

Quick meaning: Covariate is a noun meaning (statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.

Meaning

(statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.

Example Sentences

Mahalanobis used a visual method of approximating the standard error of the income at all the fractiles of the covariate for the same graph by taking two independently selected "interpenetrating subsamples" and obtaining a graph for each of the subsamples besides the combined sample.

On the basis of these analogies, any inference of a population structure driven by selective sweeps would require good longitudinal data from natural bacterial populations, as well as observations of episodic crashes in diversity causally associated with genetic changes and not associated with changes in ecological covariates.

Word Forms

• covariates

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include multicovariate, covariance, latent, variate, copula, multivariate.

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