noun
Meaning 1
A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
Examples
- 2002, Cavid J. Bartholomew, 1: Old and New Approaches to Latent Variable Modelling, George A. Marcoulides, Irini Moustaki (editors), Latent Variable and Latent Structure Models, 2012, page 1, The earliest use of latent variable ideas in time series appears to have been due to Wiggins (1973) but, as so often happens, it was not followed up. [...] The basis for this remark can be explained by reference to a simple example which, at first sight, appears to have little to do with latent variables.
Meaning relationships
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