experimental variable

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1. (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	variable, variable quantity,
definition	:	a quantity that can assume any of a set of values (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	factor,
definition	:	an independent variable in statistics (noun.cognition)

domain category	:	statistics,
definition	:	a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters (noun.cognition)