Covariate
Full definition of covariate
Noun
covariate
(plural covariates)- (statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.
- February 6, On the basis of these analogies, any inference of a population structure driven by selective sweeps would require good longitudinal data from natural bacterial populations, as well as observations of episodic crashes in diversity causally associated with genetic changes and not associated with changes in ecological covariates.