In programming, a variable that keeps track of the number of iterations of a process. Its value is incremented or decremented with each iteration, and it is compared to a constant or other variable to ...

I introduce the notion of a 'control variable' which gives us a way of seeing how mental causation could be an unproblematic case of causation in general, rather than being some sui generis form of ...

Imagine you're a researcher studying how sleep affects mood. To explore the connection, you would look at two key "variables": sleep (how much someone gets) and mood (how happy or irritable they feel) ...

Scientists often want to find out if changing one variable makes a difference to other variables. In many (though not all) investigations the variables are kept constant - the control variables, apart ...

operand something to be operated on. An operand can be a variable, a SAS function, or a constant. See Specifying an Operand. operator a symbol that requests a comparison, logical operation, or ...

Speed, torque, and horsepower are three inter-related parameters in motor control. The speed of a motor, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), defines a motor's ability to spin at a rate per unit ...

Florida Scientist, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Spring, 2007), pp. 157-165 (9 pages) The study tested the effects of controlled variables on decomposition of buried bodies in Florida. Twenty-four domestic pig (Sus ...