Sentences with phrase «as an independent variable»

The results of statistical tests that use the Sound Money and Monetary Freedom indicators as independent variables should be checked against results that use raw inflation data, instead, or using tests that strip out price stability data altogether.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

And almost any of our young psychologists will tell you that only a few belated scholastics, or possibly some crack - brained theosophist or psychical researcher, can be found holding back, and still talking as if mental phenomena might exist as independent variables in the world.

First, a linear regression model was constructed using the latest postnatal weight measurement in grams as the dependent variable and using the breastfeeding medication group (fluoxetine: yes / no) as the independent variable of interest.

Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (formerly of Northwestern University, Chicago), and Editor, JAMA Surgery, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if sex bias exists in human surgical clinical research, if data are reported and analyzed using sex as an independent variable, and to identify specialties in which the greatest and least sex biases exist.

Specifically, the reviewed data showed that analysis and discussion included sex as an independent variable in less than 33 % (432 of 1303) of surgical clinical research studies.

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were computed using coverage at the SNP position as the independent variable.

Dietary fiber intake, including total dietary fiber and soluble and insoluble fiber, was used as the independent variable and was included as both a continuous and a categorical (quartiles) variable.

Multiple linear regression analysis with log - transformed plasma concentrations of inflammatory markers as dependent variables and dietary intakes of PHVOs and non-HVOs as independent variables (all as continuous) were used.

To compare changes in FFM between groups, a general linear regression model was fitted with FFM as the dependent variable, and treatment, time, and the interaction of treatment with time were used as independent variables.

In fact, not one of the four studies looked at education coursework as an independent variable.

Evidence of student attendance as an independent variable in education production functions.

We used three levels of the teacher accomplishment rating (most, moderately, and least accomplished) as the independent variable and eight scores from the teacher factor set derived from our empirical data (time spent in small - group instruction, time spent in whole - group instruction, time spent in independent reading, student engagement rating, home communication rating, preferred style of telling, preferred style of recitation, and preferred style of coaching) as the set of dependent measures.

In these analyses we used site council diversity, district support, and principals» openness to community involvement as independent variables; again, we used poverty and school level as control variables.

To investigate the relationship between school effectiveness and classroom instruction, we initially conducted a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) with the school effectiveness rating serving as the independent variable and eight teacher variables serving as outcome measures (see Table 11).

Much of this research treats the district as an independent variable acting as an organizational entity without explicitly and systematically examining leadership practices and effects.

Granted that an R ^ 2 of 0.97 using number of years as the independent variable explains 97 % of the variation in the FCF, but wouldnt you be better off using a variable like cash flow from operations?

With price as the dependent variable, I then run a regression with model year as dummy independent variables, and total miles as an independent variable.

We performed ANOVAs with each of the C - BARQ measures in Table 1 as the dependent variable, and breed as independent variables.

The latter effect is statistically significant, but not large: number of inherited disorders explains only about 10 % of the variance in popularity changes in both the U.S. and the U.K. (as estimated from ANOVAs with popularity change as the dependent variable and number of disorders as the independent variable).

My role is to physically manipulate the molten glass, directly interacting with the medium and acting as an independent variable.

As I said, all your forcings (and glaciers and dusts) are in fact another variables of the same coupled climate system, and their scales are not separable so you can't consider them as independent variables.

IPCC relies on that solution in Z & W - G, which has pH as the independent variable.

Considering the harmonics as independent variables in mult - regression analysis, the statistical significants of each can be determined as well as the shape of the cycles.

The logical shortcomings that are exposed by this comment would be erased by replacement of a temperature as the independent variable of the IPCC climate models by a set of non-overlapping ranges of this temperature.

As samples of infinite size are not realizable, the selection of temperature as the independent variable of the IPCC models can be described as a fundamental error in the construction of these models.

If you do the forcing versus temperature correlation (as Bill Illis, others, and I have all done), including the AMO as an independent variable, it looks like the cycles you have so admirably described account for perhaps 0.2 to 0.3 C. of the measured variation.

So as to the question of whether «CO2 functions as an independent variable irrespective of what is causing changes in the level of CO2,» the answer is, according to RC, it depends.

But that doesn't mean that CO2 is not acting as an independent variable within the dynamic system we call climate.

Be that as it may — looking at it as a system dynamic, without accompanying (specific) quantification, can't you say that CO2 functions as an independent variable irrespective of what is causing changes in the level of CO2?

However, here it would be prudent to consider them as independent variables acting upon global temperatures.

In this regard it did occur to me to suggest continental drift as another independent variable, but didn't feel it was quite in the spirit of the comment being made by Wagathon.

Ideally and for someone with the statistical skills, I could see a model of delta as the dependent variable and the factors as independent variables.

'' it seems that Salby extrapolated his results (based on correlations in the satellite era) backwards in time to «predict» CO2 levels back in the late 19th century, using only temperature as the independent variable»

The technical criticism here is that the Barker meta - analysis did not factor these differing cost assumptions in as independent variables when doing its regression analysis on IAM results.

In psychological research, the definition of «strength of the evidence» varies based on the study, with some studies using the quantity of evidence as the independent variable and others using the quality of evidence (Devine et.

In the first step, a regression analysis was conducted with change in mental health as the dependent variable and group membership (intervention or control group), parental satisfaction and efficacy as the independent variables.

Regression models were evaluated using the 4 most reported disciplinary practices as dependent variables and child, mother, and family characteristics as the independent variables (Table 4).

As defined by Kraemer et al, 21 the linear model to examine moderators had the potential moderator, treatment, and treatment × moderator interaction as independent variables.

Two analyses were conducted, with maternal feeding practices (pressure to eat, restriction, monitoring and healthy modelling) as the independent variables in one analysis, and child eating behaviours (food responsiveness, food fussiness and interest in food) in the other.

In each of the three factorial analyses using one of the VIEW factors and stress condition as independent variables, participants rated the high stress vignette as significantly more stressful than the low stress vignette.

More specifically, Table 3 (a) reports all the indirect effects through DERS, AAQ and their sequence for BAEQ, whereas Table 3 (b) reports the same indirect effects but with ACS as the independent variable.

The same mediational analyses were carried out considering ACS as the independent variable, and DERS, AAQ and the sequence DERS − > AAQ as mediators.

We first conducted two one - way multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVAs) with ethnicity (African American, European American) as the independent variable and age, income, and education as covariates.

(iii) Analyses of variance (ANOVAs)(or multivariate analyses of variance, MANOVAs, when we analysed an instrument with subscales, such as the YSR and the ITIA) were run on the outcome scale (or subscales), with intervention or not (SET or No - SET), number of years (t1, t2... t5) and student gender as independent variables.

Second, the hypothesized relation between depression and hope for the future is investigated with a multivariate logit regression model with the former as the dependent and the latter as the independent variables.

Table 4 displays the results of the parallel multiple mediation analyses using antipathy as the independent variable and with depressive symptoms included as a covariate.

Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preferences (Preferences as Independent Variable): Do we desire romantic partners who match our ideals more than partners who do not?

In hierarchical regression analyses with the various ENRICH factor scores as dependent variables and job satisfaction as the independent variable in the first block, the two SSQ factors in the second block, and the WOC factors in the third block, between 24 and 38 % of the variance in seven of the nine ENRICH factors (not significant model for «Family & Friends» and «Marriage & Children») could be explained by the variation in all the independent variables with varying weight of the several independent variables (Table 3).

These results demonstrated that in addition to controlling for gender, mediational analyses needed to examine Adaptive Narcissism after controlling for Maladaptive Narcissism and vice versa as independent variables in models predicting the dependent variable of Anger.