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The level of measurement of a variable in mathematics and statistics describes how much information the numbers associated with the variable contain. Different mathematical operations on variables are possible, depending on the level at which a variable is measured. In statistics, the kinds of descriptive statistics and significance tests that are appropriate depend on the level of measurement of the variables concerned. ...
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| categorical v. |
one of the variables that are not continuous but instead put data into categories.
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| categorical variable |
is one that is given by list of categories or classes. For example, eye color is a categorical variable, so is sex and the colors of various flowers.
출처: pirate.shu.edu/~guettijo/glossary.html
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| categorical variable |
a variable that records a category destination; also called a qualitative variable For example, if you were to record the gender of your class members, gender would be a categorical variable because the class members are either in the female category or in the male category. Here is another example. Suppose you asked your class members for their favorite flavor of ice cream and you allowed them to choose from the following: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, or other. ...
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