Guarantees a minimum wage of $8.25 per hour for workers 18 years of age and older; workers under 18 may be paid $.50 per hour less than the adult minimum wage. Credit for tips may not exceed 40% of the applicable minimum wage.
Predictor (common alternate for independent variable that softens the causal language. ) Carrier (mostly in the regression diagnostic literature) X variable (due to common notation) Covariate (strictly speaking this applies to variables that are observed not manipulated)
concerned with the prediction of subjects scores on one of the variables (the criterion variable) from their scores on the other variable (the predictor variable) - if the two variables are related, then we should be able to predict one form the other with some degree of accuracy.