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PRONUNCIATION OF DUMMY VARIABLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUMMY VARIABLE

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Dummy variable is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUMMY VARIABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dummy variable in the English dictionary

The definition of dummy variable in the dictionary is a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUMMY VARIABLE

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dump
dump bin
dump on
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WORDS THAT END LIKE DUMMY VARIABLE

able
amiable
appreciable
dependent variable
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Synonyms and antonyms of dummy variable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dummy variable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUMMY VARIABLE

Find out the translation of dummy variable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dummy variable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dummy variable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚拟变量
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

variable dummy
570 millions of speakers

English

dummy variable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डमी चर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتغير الوهمي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фиктивная переменная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dummy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডামি পরিবর্তনশীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

variable muette
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembolehubah dummy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dummy-Variable
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ダミー変数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

더미 변수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Variabel dummy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

biến giả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போலி மாறி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डमी व्हेरिएबल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kukla değişken
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

variabile dummy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmienna dummy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фіктивна змінна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

variabilă dummy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψευδομεταβλητή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dummy veranderlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dummy variabel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dummyvariabel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dummy variable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUMMY VARIABLE»

The term «dummy variable» is regularly used and occupies the 60.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dummy variable

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUMMY VARIABLE»

Discover the use of dummy variable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dummy variable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Regression with Dummy Variables
Beginning with the simplest model, Hardy probes the use of dummy variable regression in increasingly complex specifications, exploring issues such as: interaction, heteroscedasticity, multiple comparisons and significance testing, the use ...
Melissa A. Hardy, 1993
2
Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction
Dummy Variable Adjustment Dummy variable adjustment (Cohen & Cohen, 1985 ) is a method by which to adjust parameters to account for missing data. Generally used in regression analyses when a single predictor is missing, the procedure ...
Patrick E. McKnight, Katherine M. McKnight, Souraya Sidani, 2007
3
Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel, Revised
To do it manually, we can create a dummy variable Female based on Gender in column J by entering the formula IF(F45 “Female”,1,0) We can add dummies to effectively collapse categories. Always include one less dummy than the number  ...
S. Albright, Wayne Winston, Christopher Zappe, 2008
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Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach
The Dummy Variable Regression A traditional view of the fixed effects approach is to assume that the unobserved effect, a i , is a parameter to be estimated for each i. Thus, in equation (14.4), ai is the intercept for person i (or firm i, city i, and so ...
Jeffrey Wooldridge, 2008
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Introductory Econometrics: Using Monte Carlo Simulation with ...
The average value of a dummy variable tells what fraction of all observations in the sample possesses the characteristic in question. 2. In a regression model with a dummy variable. Predicted Y = bo + b\ • Dummy Variable. the b\ coefficient  ...
Humberto Barreto, Frank Howland, 2006
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Understanding Statistics
A shortcut formula for the standard deviation of a dummy variable The standard deviation of a dummy variable, like that of any variable, can be computed as the root-mean-squared deviation. But there is a simple shortcut that applies in the ...
Chalmer, 1986
7
A Guide to Econometrics
The crucial difference is that with an intercept included the interpretation of the dummy variable coefficients changes dramatically. With no intercept, the dummy variable coefficients reflect the expected income for the respective professions.
Peter Kennedy, 2003
8
Correlation and Regression Analysis: A Historian's Guide
A case scored 0 on the dummy variable will have 0 as its value on the interaction term (table 11.7). When performing a regression analysis, the researcher incorporates both the interval variable and the interaction term in the equation.
Thomas J. Archdeacon, 1994
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Statistical Models for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: ...
This is known as the dummy variable trap. To avoid the dummy variable trap it is necessary to always exclude at least one of the dummy variable categories from the regression. For instance, in the region example, a maximum of three regional  ...
William H. Crown, 1998
10
Applied Regression Analysis and Other Multivariable Methods
... be applied to avoid collinearity (see Chapter 14) in defining a dummy variable for regression analysis: If the nominal independent variable of interest has k categories, then exactly dummy variables must be defined to index these categories, ...
David Kleinbaum, Lawrence Kupper, Azhar Nizam, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUMMY VARIABLE»

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Nutritional status and survival among old adults: an 11-year …
A dummy variable was created based on every possible combination of the two variables, and people with normal nutritional status and normal ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
dCorsi and the Oilers' defence under Craig Ramsay
... starts in the defensive zone,face-off win percentages in the defensive and neutral zones, and a dummy variable used to represent the team. «The Copper & Blue, Jun 15»
3
Does President Obama Hate Conservative Christians?
In fact, the liberal Christian dummy variable had an odds ratio measure of 3.901, indicating that liberal Christians are almost four times more ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
4
Of cumulonimbus
The dummy variable! Sevak: Which is? Indra: The Finance Minister. I like your FM and you are through. Sevak (wonderstruck): Oh! Sire, what ... «Hindu Business Line, May 15»
5
Do hard-hit balls produce more errors?
Adding a dummy variable to identify when the home team was batting does not help improve our model's predictive power. But there is still a ... «Beyond the Box Score, May 15»
6
Playoff Previews: Eastern Conference Finals
For example, the Warriors had their own dummy variable for the team as well as another for when Bogut is in the lineup. Cleveland had one for ... «Nylon Calculus, May 15»
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Tobacco use and associated factors among adults in Ethiopia …
Finally, a dummy variable containing “0” if the adults had not used any types and “1” if the adults had used one or more tobacco types was ... «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
8
Parthasarathi Shome: GDP estimation methodology - exasperating …
Otherwise, econometric work would have to continually use a dummy variable at the break point for analysis using GDP time series, certainly a ... «Business Standard, Apr 15»
9
How Unions and Right-to-Work Laws Affect the Economy
Heritage also partially controlled for statewide climactic amenities, including a dummy variable for whether a state borders the ocean and ... «InsiderOnline, Mar 15»
10
Simulating the 2015 Three-Point Contest
But no matter the order, the only other variable that had any significant was the dummy variable for the final round. This wasn't surprising ... «Mid Level Exceptional, Feb 15»

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