Equation 2 · Part 1 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door
Symbol β
What this part means
β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
…its rule-of-law score, and its economic inequality: an ordinary least-squares regression across the 56 countries with full covariate data finds individualism predicting the preference for sparing more characters at = 0.88 , rule of law predicting the preference for sparing the lawful at = 0.53 , and Gini inequality predicting the preference for sparing higher-status characters at = 0.32 , all reported as statistically distinguishable from zero [ 1 , 9 ] . Both results are treated as…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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