response variable

noun

1. statistics a more modern term for dependent variable

Example Sentences

We used the instances where two individuals had the same rare SNVs to create a labelled training set where the outlier status of the second individual was used as the response variable.

From Nature

To describe sequencing outcome of a sample S, we used the following response variable YS:

From Nature

To strengthen our argument, we also computed the F-significance, which defines the significance of independent variables to the response variable.

From Forbes

We thus computed an alternative test in our regression, the f-significance, which defines the significance of independent variables to the response variable.

From Forbes

Since the variable importance can be influenced by both the correlation and the scale of the variables, we calculated the empirical P value of variable importance measures by repeatedly permuting the response variable in Random Forest models, in order to determine the distribution of measured importance values for each predictor variable29.

From Nature