There, many find explanatory power essential or useless, depending on their needs. In contrast, the agreement about testable predictions was near uniform: they are essential.

Y is the dependent variable, representing a quantity that varies from individual to individual throughout the population, and is the primary focus of interest.X 1,..., X k are the explanatory ...

Some explanatory journalism consists mostly of words, organized into simple declarative sentences. Some explanatory journalism consists of photographs, or charts, or videos, or animated GIFs.