bivariate
- adjective
- /ˌbaɪˈvɛrɪət/
- Specialized
- In statistics, a bivariate distribution shows the probabilities of two variables occurring together.
- bivariate analysis
- bivariate correlation
- bivariate relationship
Examples
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The researchers performed a bivariate analysis to study the relationship between age and income levels.
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Table 3 presents bivariate associations between policy variables and health care use.
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Forty students were asked to select a bivariate sample from the population described above.
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The negative event variables were also significantly related to sexual attitudes in this bivariate analysis.
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Given the small sample size, only variables that showed bivariate significance with the dependent variables were included.
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Drug and alcohol use were not significantly associated with HIV infection in the bivariate analysis (Table 2).
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In order to examine the relation among family variables and eating attitudes and behavior, bivariate correlations were conducted.
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First, ORs and 95% CIs were calculated to determine bivariate associations between case status and each exposure.
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Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficients were generated to establish bivariate relationships between variables.
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Table 2 summarizes bivariate correlations among variables included in the structural equation model evaluated in this study.
Academic text (2012)
How Dimensional
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bivariate comes from the parts bi- meaning 'two' (as in bicycle) and variate, related to variable, which means 'to change' or 'something that can vary'. So, bivariate describes something that involves two variables.