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The phrase "a dummy variable" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in statistics and econometrics to refer to a variable that takes on values of 0 or 1 to indicate the absence or presence of a categorical effect.
Example: "In the regression analysis, we included a dummy variable for gender to account for differences between male and female participants."
Alternatives: "indicator variable" or "binary variable".
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Menopausal status was assigned a dummy variable: 1 for premenopausal and 2 for postmenopausal.
Every sample of ADC is typecast to an int and stored in a dummy variable Ain.
Race is a dummy variable here, but not of interest as such.
A dummy variable was incorporated in the model to categorize the data for tissue and tumor.
generics is a dummy variable.
This variable is a dummy variable.
A dummy variable usually takes 0 and 1.
A dummy variable for unemployment was also used.
ONS (control variable) = a dummy variable describing SMEs ownership structure.
Hostile Deal is a dummy variable indicating hostile takeover attempt.
That is, each country has a dummy variable.
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