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  2. Temporary variable - Wikipedia

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    Temporary variables, along with XOR swaps and arithmetic operators, are one of three main ways to exchange the contents of two variables. To swap the contents of variables "a" and "b" one would typically use a temporary variable temp as follows, so as to preserve the data from a as it is being overwritten by b: temp := a a := b b := temp

  3. XOR swap algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Using the XOR swap algorithm to exchange nibbles between variables without the use of temporary storage. In computer programming, the exclusive or swap (sometimes shortened to XOR swap) is an algorithm that uses the exclusive or bitwise operation to swap the values of two variables without using the temporary variable which is normally required.

  4. Dummy variable (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    The variable could take on a value of 1 for males and 0 for females (or vice versa). In machine learning this is known as one-hot encoding. Dummy variables are commonly used in regression analysis to represent categorical variables that have more than two levels, such as education level or occupation.

  5. Change of variables - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a change of variables is a basic technique used to simplify problems in which the original variables are replaced with functions of other variables. The intent is that when expressed in new variables, the problem may become simpler, or equivalent to a better understood problem.

  6. Swap (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    define swap (x, y) temp := x x := y y := temp While this is conceptually simple and in many cases the only convenient way to swap two variables, it uses extra memory. Although this should not be a problem in most applications, the sizes of the values being swapped may be huge (which means the temporary variable may occupy a lot of memory as ...

  7. Instrumental variables estimation - Wikipedia

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    The problem was that price affected both supply and demand so that a function describing only one of the two could not be constructed directly from the observational data. Wright correctly concluded that he needed a variable that correlated with either demand or supply but not both – that is, an instrumental variable.

  8. List of rules of inference - Wikipedia

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    Each logic operator can be used in an assertion about variables and operations, showing a basic rule of inference. Examples: The column-14 operator (OR), shows Addition rule : when p =T (the hypothesis selects the first two lines of the table), we see (at column-14) that p ∨ q =T.

  9. Omitted-variable bias - Wikipedia

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    the omitted variable must be a determinant of the dependent variable (i.e., its true regression coefficient must not be zero); and; the omitted variable must be correlated with an independent variable specified in the regression (i.e., cov(z,x) must not equal zero).