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This is the development repository for the STATistics Ontology (STATO). For more information and demonstration on the ontology content, please visit its website:
http://stato-ontology.org/
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Consider adding an Effect class #75

Closed hcwi closed 9 months ago

hcwi commented 6 years ago

Hi, could you consider adding an Effect class to STATO? In our use case of describing of mixed effect modelling results, we want to say that a model parameter represents an effect of applying a certain experimental factor level on the output variable. Hence, an effect is related (via is about) to a level of independent variable and (via has effect on) to the dependent variable. We can say that an effect provides an interpretation of a model parameter in the context of a statistical model. Thus, the class could be imagined as a subclass of model parameter, but it might well be worth some more consideration.