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.
An independent variable is a variable believed to affect the dependent variable. This is the variable that you, the researcher, will manipulate to see if it makes the dependent variable change. In our example of hungry people throwing a ball, our independent variable is how long it's been since they've eaten.