STAT 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Categorical Variable, Data Set

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Statistics
• Course: STAT 111
• Professor: Jacob William Martin

Document Summary

Regardless of your field, interests, lifestyle, etc. you will most definitely have to make decisions based on data. Data set of measurements taken on a set of individual units. Usually, data is stored and presented in a dataset, comprised of variables measured in cases. A variable is any characteristic that is recorded for each case. Generally, each case makes up a row in a dataset, and each variable makes up a column. Variables are classified as either categorical or quantitative. Quantitative variable measures a numerical quantity for each case.