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Binary

Binary

Ordinal

Ordinal

quantitative

Qualitative

Binary

Nominal

Discrete

Nominal

qualitative; concerned with qualities, NOT numbers colors, like red, orange, are qualitative (unless you give the wavelength eg. 620nm)

quantitative; concerned with quantity, aka numbers

  • gender
  • race
  • astrology sign
  • favorite class

lacks order or rankqualitative

nominal data

A bar graph of nicest fruit shows nominal data, and the count of people who judge the fruit nicest is quantitative, discrete data.

  • smoker/non
  • COVID positive/negative
  • have/have not (Y chromosome)
  • heads or tails (coinflip)

two optionsqualitative

binary data

This box and whiskers plot compares the binary data of a pulmonary embolism (blocked artery to lungs) to quantitative continuous data (shock index).

can be rankedqualitative

ordinal data

  • income level
  • education level
  • satisfaction ratings
  • stage of cancer
  • pain level

A bar graph of nicest fruit shows nominal data, and the count of people who judge the fruit nicest is quantitative, discrete data.

can't be reducedquantitative

discrete data

  • amount of children
  • (you have 1, 2,3, not 2.5 children!)
  • # of M&Ms in a bag

can't be reducedquantitative

continuous data

  • amount of children
  • (you have 1, 2,3, not 2.5 children!)
  • # of M&Ms in a bag

Nominal

  • smoker/non
  • COVID positive/negative
  • have/have not (Y chromosome)
  • heads or tails (coinflip)

two optionsqualitative

binary data

This box and whiskers plot compares the binary data of a pulmonary embolism (blocked artery to lungs) to quantitative continuous data (shock index).

Nominal

  • smoker/non
  • COVID positive/negative
  • have/have not (Y chromosome)
  • heads or tails (coinflip)

two optionsqualitative

binary data

This box and whiskers plot compares the binary data of a pulmonary embolism (blocked artery to lungs) to quantitative continuous data (shock index).