What is a response variable in statistics?
Dude Changed status to publish February 8, 2022
This is a variable that we typically know before conducting the experiment and can be used to predict what will happen in the experiment.
A response variable is either an outcome or measurement, like height. In a lab setting, you might make a hypothesis that “tall people weigh more than short people”, so your independent (predictor) variable is height and your dependent (response) variable would be weight. Although the predictor has all of the experimental power in this scenario, it’s actually treating data from two different things at once: measuring weight and predicting height.
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