dummy variable
Britishnoun
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An example of the use of a dummy variable is the work estimating the impact of gender on salaries.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
It may be that the dummy variable has more than a simple shift effect on the dependent variable, but also interacts with one or more of the other continuous independent variables.
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The binary variable, our dummy variable of interest in this analysis, is gender where male is given a value of 1 and female given a value of 0.
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Note that when the dummy variable, X2 = 0 the interaction variable has a value of 0, but when X2 = 1 the interaction variable has a value of X1.
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The variable v acts as a dummy variable that disappears after integration, leaving the arc length as a function of time t.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
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