The term "distinctive variable" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feature or characteristic that is different from the others in a set of observations. For example, "The presence of a distinctive variable in the experimental data allowed the researchers to make a definitive conclusion about their hypothesis."
This might be because each country has a substantial road infrastructure that is up to European standards, and the road length is therefore not a distinctive variable.
In this context, it has been speculated that IgM aabs from a subset of patients with undifferentiated rheumatic disease syndromes staining mouse kidney nuclei with a distinctive variable large-speckled (VLS) IIF pattern recognized an epitope on histone H3 and a H3-H4 22 tetramer, and since these sera also stained centromeric heterochromatin, it was suggested that they bound CENP-A [ 25].
The morphological, muscular, and conditional differences between the male and female players occupying particular different positions may become qualitatively distinctive variables in their performance and predisposition to injury.
One important reason for this is that it is by, and only by, contrasting one's own outlook with the outlooks of other peoples that one recognizes what is universal and invariant in it and what by contrast distinctive and variable.
Therefore, if the model includes information on all variables, similar but nonidentical states will occupy different attractor basins, but if one or more distinctive (stratifying) variables are not measured, this may result in "hidden" dissimilarity.
First, the presence of distinctive observed variables for each skill in the TEAP test supports the reporting of separate scores for each skill.
(Cf Quine 1966) From a purely technical point of view, one can introduce different kinds of variables to reflect any distinction one wants, e.g., there could distinctive styles of variables for even numbers as opposed to odd ones, or for left-handed people as opposed to right-handed.
After one to two weeks the catarrhal stage passes into the distinctive paroxysmal period, variable in duration but commonly lasting four to six weeks.
As can be seen in Figure 2 and Additional file 6, each group has a reasonably distinctive CTR with variable-length stretches of highly conserved amino acids.
Assuming that these 128 matches were correct (as they had matched completely on the most distinctive combination of variables available), it is likely that at least 128 of the 170 from the linkage without Medicare numbers were 'false positive' matches, due to there being more than one person with a VAED record from the same postcode, born on the same date, and of the same sex and country of birth.
The black "bow-tie" necklace is also distinctive, though it is variable in extent, and occasionally is nearly absent.
