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Hidden variable

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Hidden variables may refer to:

  • Hidden variable theories, in physics a class of theories trying to explain away the statistical nature of quantum mechanics
  • Latent variables, in statistics, variables that are inferred from other observed variables
  • Hidden transformation, in computer science, a way to transform a generic constraint satisfaction problem into a binary one by introducing new hidden variables