term free variable refers to variables used in a function that are neither local variables nor parameters of that function. The term non-local variable is...

algebra letters are used as variables for numbers. Metasyntactic variables are used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity...

a single variable to store anything supported by the programming language. Variables are the containers for storing the values. Variables and scope: Automatic...

different meaning and denotes an argument of a function. Free variables and bound variables A random variable is a kind of variable that is used in probability...

formulas of the same logic, and such variables can be quantified by means of (at least) second-order quantifiers. Predicate variables should be distinguished...

variables contains predicate letters such as P and Q, in association with bound individual variables (e.g., x, y), individual constants such as a and...

errors-in-variables models or measurement error models are regression models that account for measurement errors in the independent variables. In contrast...

free variables of a term are those variables not bound by an abstraction. The set of free variables of an expression is defined inductively: The free...

first. Modal scope fallacy Prenex form Glossary of logic Free variables and bound variables Open formula These definitions follow the common practice...

Classifying topos Free variables and bound variables Multigrade predicate Opaque predicate Predicate functor logic Predicate variable Truthbearer Truth...

use of independent and identically distributed random variables in statistical models. Exchangeable sequences of random variables arise in cases of simple...

dummy variable or dummy variables in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term dummy variable can refer to either of the following: Bound variable, in mathematics...

A bound variable pronoun (also called a bound variable anaphor or BVA) is a pronoun that has a quantified determiner phrase (DP) – such as every, some...

refer to a lambda expression with open bindings (free variables) that have been closed by (or bound in) the lexical environment, resulting in a closed...

other variables are called free. For example, in the following expression y {\displaystyle y} is a bound variable and x {\displaystyle x} is free: λ y...

a dummy variable. (This must not be confused with "dummy variables" as that term is usually used in mathematics, also called a bound variable.) The term...

holomorphic functions of one-variable complex variables do not hold for holomorphic functions of several complex variables. The nature of these singularities...

probability of the unobserved variables, in order to do statistical inference over these variables. To derive a lower bound for the marginal likelihood...

free variable of t becomes bound, then to substitute t for x it is first necessary to change the bound variables of φ to differ from the free variables of...

by) an open predicate variables, and when defining substitution have to distinguish between free variables and bound variables. In music theory, a parameter...

ordinary variables. It also has dynamic variables, but they are in all cases explicitly marked; they must be defined by a defdynamic special form, bound by...

dependent variables are predicted, rather than a single scalar variable. If the explanatory variables are measured with error then errors-in-variables models...

sum of two independent random variables is Poisson-distributed, then so are each of those two independent random variables. It is a maximum-entropy distribution...

include variables. Any variable can be classified as being either a free variable or a bound variable. For a given combination of values for the free variables...

begins with propositional variables, atomic units that represent concrete propositions. A formula consists of propositional variables connected by logical...

has a 50% chance of being +1 and a 50% chance of being −1. A series (that is, a sum) of Rademacher distributed variables can be regarded as a simple symmetrical...

Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality) provides an upper bound on the probability of deviation of a random variable (with finite variance) from its mean. More specifically...

being the sum of nonnegative variables, its value is bounded below by 0. If the minimum is 0 then the artificial variables can be eliminated from the resulting...

which the variables are restricted to be either 0 or 1. Any bounded integer variable can be expressed as a combination of binary variables. For example...

formula with no free variables (of any sort). It's possible to forgo the introduction of function variables in the definition given above (and some authors...