What would the response variable and explanatory variables be for the following

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What would the response variable and explanatory variables be for the following example?

Mandatory holds. A mandatory hold is a revocation of a patients right to leave a psychiatric facility without consent of the monitoring physician. These holds have been classified as good or bad, and we want to know if certain groups (Native Americans, poor, uninsured) have rates of good holds that differ from others, after controlling for important factors in the hold decision (reason for hold, alcohol/drug use, physical threats, etc.).

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Response variable - Rates of good holds for different groups.

It is another term for dependent variable

Explanatory variables - Reason for hold, alcohol/drug use, physical threats, etc.

An explanatory variable is a type of independent variable.

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