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The phrase "a latent variable" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in statistical and research contexts to refer to a variable that is not directly observed but is inferred from other variables that are observed.
Example: "In our study, we identified a latent variable that influences the participants' responses to the survey questions."
Alternatives: "an unobserved variable" or "a hidden variable".
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A latent variable model for geographic lexical variation.
Effective Reserve: A Latent Variable to Improve Outcome Prediction in Stroke.
A latent variable model specifies the user preferences: both users and items are clustered into types.
Fraud, for example, is what social scientists call a latent variable.
With these, we estimate models with a latent variable that describes perceived safety and latent classes.
We introduced a new multivariate multilevel model via a latent variable approach.
Our previous work22,23 is consistent with the notion that a latent variable represents the state of a leaky integrator that responds to interneuron spiking (Fig. 6a).
The study establishes that a composite construct based on these four indicators clearly catches a latent variable 'innovative performance'.
The storage is then introduced as a latent variable associated with the supply rate as the manifest variable.
Using a latent variable approach, mean differences on the general factor were estimated after examining measurement invariance.
The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm estimates parameters of a latent variable model by running a first-order type method on a non-convex landscape.
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