Sentence examples for hypothetical variables from inspiring English sources

Our dependent variable are the patents while we used initially 21 explanatory variables that were converted by a factor analysis into five non-observable "hypothetical" variables reflecting five important aspects of the innovation systems: the National environment, the Regional environment, Innovating firms, Universities and the R&D done by Public Administration.

All state variables are hypothetical variables.

In business literature and research, productivity has usually been discussed in terms of hypothetical variables that could improve the outcome.

In addition to the above genes, we also defined x11 as a hypothetical variable "Maturity", which, as explained above, is not a parameter to trigger cell differentiation but a variable to captures the functional role of feedback signals emanating from the fully differentiated cells.

In addition to the above genes we also defined a network node, the hypothetical variable "maturation" to capture the functional role of feedback signals emanating from the maturing tissue, such as possible regulatory signals from increasing cell density and the presence of differentiated cells.

However, it must be again cautioned that likelihood of hiring is a hypothetical variable based on experimental participants or completing a vignette based survey.

Cronbach's alpha is an index of reliability associated with the variation accounted for by the true score of the underlying construct where the construct is the hypothetical variable that is being measured.

Simulation studies based on the hypothetical prognostic variables and on the actual data of hyperlipidemia patients were carried out in order to compare the proposed method with the Pocock Simon method, which transforms the continuous prognostic variables into categorical variables by dividing the whole scale into several categories.