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Recent Examples on the Web Moreover, because price is the primary independent variable in a listing, the short time spent on the market suggests that sellers priced right. — John Walkup, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021 Vaccine uptake is the dependent variable and trust in EU institutions is the independent variable. — Lutz Finger, Forbes, 6 May 2021 But hoarding is a dependent variable, as the economists would say, while the independent variable, that is, the factor causing the hoarding, was supply uncertainty or more prosaically, fear. — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021 This property, where the change in value of a variable (its derivative) is proportional to itself for a unit change in an independent variable, is characteristic of an exponential curve. — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020 So awareness is something that's the independent variable. — CBS News, 26 June 2019 But since the league tables themselves are one of its main determinants, reputation is not an obviously independent variable. — The Economist, 17 May 2018 Whatever variation remains driven by independent variables of interest suggests a protest vote. — Elizabeth R. Nugent, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018 The only real deficit comes on the glass; the defensive rebounding issues that plagued Atlanta for years followed Horford to Boston, isolating the independent variable involved. — Ben Golliver And Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017 See More

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“Independent variable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/independent%20variable. Accessed 29 May. 2022.

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