Preferred Name

study design controlled variable

Definitions

Controlled variable specification is a part of a study design. They are the entities that could vary, but are kept constant to prevent their influence on the effect of the independent variable on the dependent.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000785

alternative term

controlled variable

curator note

2009-03-16: work has been done on this term during during the OBI workshop winter 2009 and the current definition was considered acceptable for use in OBI. If there is a need to modify thisdefinition please notify OBI.

definition

Controlled variable specification is a part of a study design. They are the entities that could vary, but are kept constant to prevent their influence on the effect of the independent variable on the dependent.

definition source

WEB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_variable

editor note

In the Philly 2013 workshop the label was chosen to distinguish it from "controlled variable" as used in statistical modelling

2/2/2009 Original definition: Controlled variables are also important to identify in experiments. They are the variables that are kept constant to prevent their influence on the effect of the independent variable on the dependent. Every experiment has a controlling variable, and it is necessary to not change it, or the results of the experiment won't be valid

editor preferred label

controlled variable specification

example of usage

In a study in which gene expression is measured in patients between 8 month to 4 years old that have mild or severe malaria and in which the hypothesis is that gene expression in that age group is a function of disease status, age is a controlled variable.

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

label

study design controlled variable

part_of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0500000

prefixIRI

OBI:0000785

prefLabel

study design controlled variable

term editor

PERSON: Bjoern Peters

PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg

PERSON: Chris Stoeckert

treeView

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0500000

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000033

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