Asked by Chris Blackston on Jun 06, 2024
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On the first day of class,statistics professors ask each student to fill out a demographic questionnaire to learn information about their class.Which of the following variables is/are categorical?
A) Gender
B) Marital status
C) Highest education level of your mother (e.g. ,high school grad,college grad,etc. )
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
Categorical Variables
Variables that denote categories and can assume one among a limited, typically constant, set of possible values.
- Discern between categorical and quantitative variables within datasets.
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Rockay DavisJun 09, 2024
Final Answer :
D
Explanation :
All of the variables listed are categorical. Gender and marital status have categories (male/female and married/single/divorced/widowed), while education level has categories as well (high school grad, college grad, etc.).
Learning Objectives
- Discern between categorical and quantitative variables within datasets.