1.   None the less, they are based on this simple inferential structure which is the core of variable analysis.

2.   Variable analysis is very much a beginning by presenting theory with reasonably well-confirmed empirical relationships upon which to work.

3.   This process of elaborating a concept and moving toward empirical indicators is the crucial step in variable analysis.

4.   But this eventuality is exactly what variable analysis is intended to show.

5.   The inferential structure of the pattern searching method of variable analysis made use of the idea of the property space and the covariation of property attributes.

6.   In variable analysis the managerial style would be called the independent variable, or causal factor, and the output, or the effect, the dependent variable.

7.   With hindsight, it is difficult to see quite the radical innovation variable analysis proved to be in social research.