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Originally Posted by Jerry
I would like to see where inflation, Dark Energy, and Dark Energy sit in your dependent/independent variable chart  |
They are calculated variables for sure - especially if we infer their past existence. However, the distinction between independent and dependent variables is different than the distinction between independently measured variables and calculated variables.
Calculated variables may serve merely as interim variables in science (like G, c, h, etc.). But what is more important for science is that a set of independently measured variables can be used to predict another set of independently measured variable(s).