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latent variable

noun

Etymology

The variables are latent (“hidden”) because they are not directly observed, but instead inferred from other variables.

Definitions

  1. A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model…

    A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.

    • Each of these is a latent variable, which is measured by one or more observable variables.
    • As stated earlier, in addition to having df greater than 0, the second condition for model identification is that the latent variables have to be scaled.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for latent variable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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