Research Methods in Psychology is a standard required course in pretty much any psychology major. In our department at SUNY New Paltz, this is a four-credit class with a large laboratory component.

Both in the mathematical sense and in the business world, an independent variable is one that stands alone and is not affected by outside forces. When it comes to evaluating cost in business, ...

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Linear regression is a type of data analysis that considers the linear relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. It is ...

We show that the $L_1$ norm of the difference between the standard normal distribution and the distribution of the standardized sum of $n$ independent random ...

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

Health programs that use social and related data obtained through surveys or other methods need to distinguish among so-called independent variables. Three groups of independent variables are (a) ...

Sensitivity analysis in finance is a way of looking at the influence of independent variables on dependent ones. Read on to ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Amy is an ACA and the CEO and founder of OnPoint ...