Terms vs Covariate - What's the difference?
terms | covariate |
(statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.
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As nouns the difference between terms and covariate
is that terms is while covariate is (statistics) a variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.covariate
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(wikipedia covariate)Noun
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