discrete variable

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a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.

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Conventional social science has a fundamental assumption, which is that you can take development and break it down into discrete variables, and you can apply an intervention and get a predictable outcome.
Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Ep. 481)|Stephen J. Dubner|November 4, 2021|Freakonomics
But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.
Did a Flawed Computer Model Sabotage the Democrats?|Ben Jacobs|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And it has become a system far more driven by the demands of branding and marketing than by recognizing clearly discrete locality.
Napa’s Earthquake Is Not The Only Thing Shaking The Vineyards|Clive Irving|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Researchers acknowledged that some unknown variable might be responsible.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: July 27|PunditFact.com|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

AirBnB allows for connections: host to guest, guest to city, and any other variable you can think of.
My Life as an Illegal AirBnb Landlord|Anonymous|June 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This uncertainty explains why the forecast, while optimistic, is highly variable.
Diesel Trains May Soon Use Natural Gas Instead|The Daily Beast|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Streptococci are arranged side by side, forming chains of variable length (Fig. 114).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
After anchoring the wind was variable and light from the western quarter but during the night there was a heavy swell.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
We have done nothing but sail on with very variable weather, for the last thirteen days.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham