exogeneity.

1. Origin or determination outside the system under consideration rather than through its internal relationships.

2. A condition in which a predictor satisfies the required lack of association with the model’s error term.

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Words that belong together

• exogeneity of a shock
• assumption of exogeneity

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The assumption of exogeneity treated the policy change as external to the specified decision model.

Exogeneity of the shock depended on the chosen system boundary.

Usage notes

Primary category: science / research / methodology. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: method specification, measurement critique, model interpretation, qualification. Disciplines: research methods, statistics, experimental design. Commonness: uncommon.