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Dependent Variable
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Dependent variable
Term used in regression analysis to represent the element or condition that is dependent on values of one or more other independent variables.
dependent variable
A variable affected by another variable or by a certain event. For example, because a stock's price is affected by dividend payments, earnings projections, interest rates, and many other things, stock price is a dependent variable. Compare independent variable.
Dependent Variable
In technical analysis, a variable whose value is determined by the value of other variable(s), but plays no part in determining the value of those other variable(s). For example, if a product's price is determined by some equation involving the product's supply and its demand, the price is the dependent variable because the price does not affect the supply or demand.


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A measure of the goodness of fit of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables in a regression analysis; for instance, the percentage of variation in the return of an asset explained by the market portfolio return.
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Both dependent and independent variables were measured using a 5- point Liked-type scale, the anchors being: 1 definitely non-existent and 5: definitely existent level of practice.
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Table 1 shows the dependent and independent variables used in this study.
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