Independent and Dependent Variables (Essay Sample)

Independent and Dependent Variables
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Variables are characteristics or properties of an object, person or some event that can have exist in different amounts or values. Independent and dependent variables are both mathematical and statistical tools that are utilised in research and experiments by statisticians and researchers. Both variables enable statistician measure results, maintain control and draw defined conclusions. Therefore during research, the variables are manipulated by the experimenters. When variables whose values can be altered or changed in a given equation or model, they are independent variables. They are used as the input to be used and modified by the model/ equation to change other values, the output. On the other hand, values which results from these inputs are termed as dependent variables. They depend directly on the independent variables, and the information from them are discovered or observed by the experimenter and/ or researcher.
Variables whether dependent or independent differ in the level in which they can be measured, that is the level of measurability their scale of measurement can provide. This is crucial in research studies since it determines the amount of information that can be obtained from its type of measurement scale, highlighting the measurement errors involved too (Michelle Hassler, 2014). The relationship between the two variables provides researchers/ experimenters with a hypothesis, whose purpose would present answers to the researche...