Sentence examples for dummy definition from inspiring English sources

If "human being" means something definite, for example, "two-footed animal" (Aristotle's dummy definition), then, Aristotle concludes, it is impossible that the same thing be a human being and not be a human being.

For fiscal consolidations (and expansions) we create dummies using the definition of consolidations provided by Giavazzi and Pagano (1996) and Alesina and Ardagna (1998) following Jalles (2014).

Most work on innovation (as reviewed in Hall (2011)) has used surveys based on a version of this definition, typically using dummy variables that represent a product and/or process innovation (e.g., Griffith et al. (2006)), innovative sales shares (e.g., van Leeuwen and Klomp (2006)), or patent counts (e.g., Crépon et al. (1998)) as proxies to explain the growth of productivity.

This confirms the stylized facts presented in Figs. 2 and 3. Table 1 WPR vs dummies for Greece and the Spain-Portugal group (SP) Variable Definition Coefficient t statistic Probability Constant   1.097009 446.3274 0.0000 DUMMY GR Greece = 1 0.870273 25.74714 0.0000 DUMMY SP Spain-Portugal = 1 0.574199 35.20437 0.0000 Adjusted R-squared 0.497914       No. of obs.

The effects of the programs on neighboring municipalities of the treatment group and neighboring municipalities of the control group do not differ, as shown in column (5) and column (6). Figure 5 indicates the coefficients of the cross-terms between the time dummy and the neighboring municipalities' dummy by the definitions of the neighboring municipalities.

We use these definitions to define our instruments as dummy variables (Hatlebakk 2007), which reflect the intensity of the civil war within a district.

Table 8 Definition of variables Variable Unit Definition District Dummy 1 if the household is living in Girawa district; 0 otherwise.

Definition 1 iv) follows from Definition 2(4) and the fact that only dummy hyperarcs have been removed, each of which by definition points to a starting material.

Figure indicates the coefficients of the cross-term between the time dummy and the neighboring municipalities of the treatment group' dummy by definitions of neighboring municipalities.

Brandon writes, "in the above definition of \(A^* O,E \), the function \(f(E,\sigma^2)\) is a dummy function in the sense that the form can be specified only after the details of the selection scenario have been specified" (20).

(1, 2) and (13, 14) two dummies are included to control for the level of education (see Tables 5, 7 for a definition of these variables).