Sentence examples for dummy terms from inspiring English sources

Three of the four terms they were unfamiliar with were meaningless dummy terms.

Irish students were used as a baseline with other student groups entered as dummy terms into the regression model.

Quarterly intervals were included in the model as dummy terms (with the initiation month of drug treatment as a referent).

The dummy terms appeared more familiar than terms like 'bias', 'power calculation' and 'number needed to treat', suggesting some socially desired answering.

Of course, philosophers do not deny that biologists use the term gene, but many philosophers believe gene is a dummy term, a placeholder for many different concepts.

We modelled missing data for each categorical variable as a dummy term to avoid the loss of data and to permit direct comparison of each model using the deviance statistic.

We modelled gender, social class (I& II, III non-manual, III manual, IV, V), married (yes/no), carer (yes/no), employment status (employed, unemployed economically active, unemployed economically inactive) and housing tenure (owner occupier, yes/no) as categorical variables, with missing data for each categorical variable included as a dummy term.

Initially growth curve model is fit using covariates of age, random intercepts, random age rates, quadratic age and cohort dummies terms, assuming missing at random attrition.

Weekends and public holidays were adjusted for by including dummy indicator terms in order to control for the artefactual drop in reporting that occurs on these days.

In order to control for possible sequence effects, linear models initially included a dummy-coded term for dosing sequence and a sequence-condition interaction term.

The dummy and interaction terms are statistically significant (p < 0.01), thereby suggesting that there is a statistically significant difference in the magnitude of the coefficients of the individual regression results that are shown in the lower panel of Table 8.