The crime is murder in these novels, and the plots include accessories such as floor plans, maps, and railway timetables. The appeal of Golden Age fiction is the challenge of the intellectual game.
exogenous variables. (mathematics). In a mathematical model, the independent variables, which are predetermined and given outside the model. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
Here, the explanatory variable (X) may have a causal relationship with the response variable (Y), but the lurking variable might be a contributing factor as well, which makes it very hard to isolate the effect of the explanatory variable and prove that it has a causal link with the response variable.