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)
In statistics, controlling for a variable is the attempt to reduce the effect of confounding variables on an observational study. It means that when looking at the effect of one variable, all other variable predictors are held constant.