Monday, 29 June 2020

Types of data in Statistics


In statistics, there are two types of variable

1) Categorical variable

These types of variable can take few specific values and are limited in number.
For e.g.- Gender

They are further divided into two sub-categories

a) Nominal
Nominal variable does not follow any order and can also take few values only. For eg- 
Marital Status - Yes or No

b) Ordinal
Ordinal variables have specific order and can also take few values. For e.g.-
Risk level - Low, Medium, High

2) Continuous variable

These variables are kind of variables for which values cannot be counted but measured. For e.g.- Height of person is a continuous variable as it can be plot on number line.

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