Imagine you're a researcher studying how sleep affects mood. To explore the connection, you would look at two key "variables": sleep (how much someone gets) and mood (how happy or irritable they feel) ...

Discover how the ceteris paribus assumption isolates variables to clarify economic causation, simplifying complex ...

In a new article, a team of researchers analyze how to avoid misinterpreting correlations in cross-cultural studies. The researchers identify three sources of non-independence in cultural variables -- ...

Pejman Tahmasebi, an assistant professor in UW’s Department of Petroleum Engineering, was lead author of a paper that was submitted, but has not yet been peer-reviewed and accepted, to the Journal of ...

Dependent variables change based on other inputs in financial models, affecting investment outcomes. Independent variables like earnings affect dependent variables, influencing metrics like P/E ratios ...