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- noun statistics A
variable that is possiblypredictive of the outcome under study.
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Examples
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This model controls for one time-varying covariate, that is, change in church attendance between 2006 and 2007.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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In this second case, the risk is said to be correlated across individuals and is called a covariate risk.
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2010
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In fact, most of life experience not involving controlled, randomized, replicated experiments with good covariate data collection goes bye-bye.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benefits and costs: crime, crime avoidance, crime control 2009
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You need to consider logistic regression probability of being implicated using seat majority as a covariate.
Has our electoral system contributed to the MPs expenses scandal? Mark Reckons 2009
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An alternative is to do an analysis of covariance in which you look at the relationship of cranial capacity to date and then include body mass as a covariate.
Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel) - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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They argue that a larger literature shows the stereotype threat effect, sometimes with the use of a prior test as a covariate and sometimes without.
Seven Short Posts Regarding Larry Summers, Civility, and Censorship 2006
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Steele and Aronson 2004 address the use of a prior SAT score as a covariate, claiming that we overworried about readers being misled by this analysis.
Seven Short Posts Regarding Larry Summers, Civility, and Censorship 2006
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We showed that the efficiency was enhanced by incorporating a quantitative covariate parametrically or non-parametrically while localizing two disease loci using ARPs.
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The simulation studies and example illustrated that the efficiency in estimating disease loci was demonstratively enhanced by incorporating a quantitative covariate and by using all relative pairs while mapping two linked loci simultaneously.
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Even for health events as salient as cancer, researchers should exercise caution about the presumed accuracy of self-reports, especially if the timing of diagnosis is an important covariate.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Anna Zajacova 2010
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