ACC 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tim Hortons, Categorical Variable, Continuous Or Discrete Variable
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Chapter 1 exercises: classify the following information into given categories. Answer: a: categorize the following variables into categorical/numerical and discrete/continuous, age (as of last birthday, quantitative/numerical/ratio/continuous, quantitative/numerical/ratio/discrete, qualitative/categorical/nominal, qualitative/categorical/ordinal. Answers: a) numerical, discrete: categorical, categorical, numerical, continuous, a quality controller of an assembly line randomly selects 60 phones from a day"s production to test for defects. The assembly line is operating satisfactorily if less than 1. 5% of the product produced per day are defective. Answer: 2: a researcher wants to know the average iq of registered voters in the state of ontario. If this average could be obtained, it would be an example of a (1) sample. Answer: 4: person"s age in years would be an example of which measurement scale? (1) nominal. Answer: 4: a survey conducted with 100 customers had the following item. Our products have much better quality now after the recent factory improvement .
