RELS 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Philippine Statistics Authority, Secondary Source, Nominal Level

• School: Metro State
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 309
• Professor: Jannel

Document Summary

A variable is a characteristic or an attribute that can have different values from different elements under consideration. Meanwhile, an observation is the realized value of a variable. Once the observations are compiled or collected, we now have data. Discrete variables can assume finite, or, at most, countably infinite number of values, as opposed to. Continuous variables can assume infinitely many values corresponding to a line interval. Number of correctly-answered items in an exam - discrete. Qualitative variables yield categorical responses, as opposed to quantitative variables that takes on numerical values representing an amount or quantity. Kind of course (e. g. ge, pe, major, elective) - qualitative. The variable has numerical values, but these do not represent an amount or quantity. One way to determine whether a variable with numerical values is qualitative or quantitative is to try adding up values and see whether the sum makes sense.