Binary Variable/Examples/Presence or Absence

Example of Binary Variable

The presence or absence of a bacterium in a clinical sample be implemented as a binary variable.

Hence, for example, absent may be encoded as $0$, and present as $1$.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): binary variable