predictor variable

1. 1.

   a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)

   Broadervariable

   statistics

Questions about predictor variable

What does predictor variable mean?

predictor variable means "a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)".

Is predictor variable a common word?

predictor variable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.