determiner, predictor, factor, indicator, criterion, component, impediment, correlates, predicator, sine qua non, barometer, constraint, prerequisite, dictates, motivators, stumbling block, direct correlation, confounder, hinge, litmus test, variables, correlation, hindrance, discriminator, differentiator, constraining, element, contributor, consequence, yardstick, difference, inverse relationship, paramount, irrespective, stressor, drawback, enabler, reinforcer, beneficiary, regardless, corollary, obstacle, stochasticity, indictor, culprit, influencer, substitutability, considerations, manifestation, imponderable, parameter, bugbear, characteristic, underpinning, guarantor, locus, influences, metric, gauging, question, signifier, laterality, arbiter, monopsony, guidepost, ceteris paribus, oncogenesis, concern, reason, equation, concomitants, indication, relatedness, implications, quintile, detriment, epiphenomenon, tenet, covariance, symptom, menarche, autosomes, irregardless, externality, battleground, lynchpin, epistasis, heredity, skewness, assortative mating, crapshoot, kilocalorie, anabolism, distinguishing characteristic, attribute, referent, aspect, invariant, univariate, predicates, overestimate, organismal, motivator, determinants, precondition, link, impetus, resource, clue, desideratum, inducement, ingredient, motivation, arrhenius, region, asymptotic, dispositional, dual, order, ordinal, polynomial, putative, analogous, approximative, constitutive, derived, discretized, distribution, equilibrium, equivalent, explicative, exponential

clincher, decisive factor, influence

determinative, harmonic, nonsingular matrix, organicism, singular matrix

cognitive factor, square matrix

causal factor, crucial, deciding, decisive, determinative, determiner, determining, determining factor