covary

English

Etymology

co- +‎ vary

Verb

covary (third-person singular simple present covaries, present participle covarying, simple past and past participle covaried)

1. (statistics) To vary together with another variable, particularly in a way that may be predictive
   • 2024 July 18, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 2, →DOI:

     More specifically, to say that there is an informative criterion of diachronic identity is to say that facts of diachronic identity covary with facts about continuants’ instantaneous qualitative profiles […] .

Related terms

• covariance
• covariate

Translations

vary together

• Finnish: kovarioida
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