Antecedent Variable
In statistics and social sciences, an antecedent variable is a Variable (mathematics), variable that can help to explain the apparent relationship (or part of the relationship) between other variables that are nominally in a Causality, cause and effect relationship. In a regression analysis, an antecedent variable would be one that influences both the independent variable and the dependent variable. See also *Path analysis (statistics) *Latent variable *Intervening variable *Confounding variable References

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Statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal". Statistics deals with every aspect of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of statistical survey, surveys and experimental design, experiments.Dodge, Y. (2006) ''The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms'', Oxford University Press. When census data cannot be collected, statisticians collect data by developing specific experiment designs and survey sample (statistics), samples. Representative sampling as ...
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