Dummy variable (statistics)
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Dummy variable (statistics)
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In regression analysis, a dummy variable is one that takes a binary value to indicate the absence or presence of some categorical effect that may be expected to shift the outcome. For example, if we were studying the relationship between biological sex and income, we could use a dummy variable to represent the sex of each individual in the study. The variable could take on a value of 1 for males and 0 for females. In machine learning this is known as one-hot encoding. Dummy variables are commonl
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Numeric stand-ins in regression analysis
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2003-07-31T08:05:27Z
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2024-08-06T14:02:36Z
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