At 03:04 PM 9/27/02 +0000, you wrote: > >The most voted was "HIDDEN" and this is better for translating (without > >using a "creepy" idea behind the word!). > >A problem with this is that the machine learning literature uses >"hidden variable" as a synonym for "latent variable". Latent variables >aren't really the same sort of thing as lurking variables.
"Lurking" isn't common in Econometrics (although I've recently been made aware of "lazy lardbutt lurker" :-)). I'm surprised no one has suggested, "omitted" or "confounding" variables -- which is how economists handle this idea. Humberto Barreto x6315 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
