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dummy variable

British

noun

a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole

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Applicants that we were unable to classify were categorized as having missing citizenship information, and we included a dummy variable in the model for those cases.

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For those investigators for whom we could not identify race or ethnicity, we included a dummy variable set to equal one in our analysis to account for missing data.

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