"contingent factor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a variable or condition that influences the outcome of a situation. For example, "The success of our project is dependent on a number of contingent factors."
They can be ascribed – apart from the disposition of the political decision-makers – to another contingent factor: with the increasing political and economic consolidation of West Germany came a correspondingly smaller need to use 'psychological warfare' to 'immunise' the ever more saturated population against the 'mental danger' of communism.
It is a drawback if trying to analyze evolutionary or biogeographic patterns, by introducing a contingent factor related to the time of trapping for each sample (e.g. [23]).
This is a vector of randomly assigned priorities for the first time evaluation of each organism fitness, incorporated to prevent the system from collapsing if all organisms simultaneously try to enter the CPU, and can be interpreted as a historical, contingent factor in evolution.
We have verified that these results do hold in the original conditions and, by extending the set of initial parameters, we have also detected that the critical mutation rate was independent of population size, a result that we have found to be dependent on a different, contingent factor, the initial fitness vector.
In addition, voters are to a greater or lesser extent susceptible to the influence of more short-term and contingent factors such as campaign events, issues, and candidate appeals.
The result is a richly textured and balanced narrative that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the news media, as well as the personal and contingent factors — the subtle negotiations, missed opportunities and sometimes heroic efforts — that influenced the on-the-ground coverage of the movement and its opponents.
So modern geography is interested in a more "discursive" approach, piling on detail and colour, in "close explication of locally specific and contingent factors", in building models from the bottom up, not from the top down.Mr Krugman's response is robust.
Contingent factors - Timing consideration for DFSS implementation.
Many "Contingent" factors for reported smells were missing.
This calls for further research to identify and study "Contingent" factors.
This study examines the relationship between cost system functionality and contingent factors in the hospitality industry.
