# dummy variable

> one that takes the value 0 or 1 to indicate the absence or presence of some categorical effect that may be expected to shift the outcome

**Wikidata**: [Q427977](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427977)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_variable_(statistics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dummy-variable


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BabelNet
3. Quora