Question

Statistics Question?

Answer 1

it better be an easy one ....

Answer 2

Can someone explain the difference between qualitative/ordinal qualitative/nominal quantitative/discrete and quantitative/continuous?
Please list some examples of each.

Answer 3

not sure what the '/' parts convey

Answer 4

qualitative/ordinal
qualitative/nominal
quantitative/discrete
quantitative/continuous

Answer 5

That the way they list it in my lessons. Just remove the / and try to explain it the best you can.

Answer 6

something has a quality of being first, second, fifth; or a quality of being better or worse

a quantity is something that can be counted or measured in some mathical way

Answer 7

ordinal is ordered; first to last
nominal is named: best better bestest
discrete is counted: 1,2,3,4,5,....
continuous is measured: 5.2 grams, 7.35 pounds, 62 Hz

Answer 8

qualitative is a measure ot types.... eyes, hair, car type

quantitative is things that are counted on measured, how many children in the family, height, weight

ok.... ordinal means data can be ordered or ranked .... house numbers.... smallest to largest, candidates on a ballot paper.

nominal when you can label data such as eye colour or car colour


discrete, data that can be counted how many pets, how many live in the house

continuous things that are measured, height, weight,
(continuious because you can never get a truely accurate measure, due to errors in measurement)

hope it helps

Answer 9

They listed some things and I'm suppose to classify under qualitative, quantitative etc...
Theses are the things the listed
political party
eye color
height of giraffe
gender
mileage indicated on the digital odometer of a car

I think eye color is qualitative nominal, but I'm not about the rest.

Can one of you guys help me with it?

Answer 10

I'm thinking
political party is ordinal
eye color nominal
height of giraffe continuous
gender discrete
mileage is continuous

Am I correct can someone verify for me?

Answer 11

well I would have thought gender was nominal.

Answer 12

I'm not sure, you might be right. what about the others?

Answer 13

I would have thought political party is nominal... you nominate which party

Answer 14

Political party: hmm, not sure, it could be context-dependent. For example, ordinal could be describing the ratio of liberal to conservative (i.e. "there are more Republicans than there are Democrats"), or it could be nominal if you just list the parties (i.e. "there is a Republican party and a Democratic party").

Eye color: yes

Giraffe height: yes

Gender: also context-dependent. If you're counting the number of boys/girls, then it's discrete, but if you're just attributing "male" or "female" to a subject, it's nominal.

Mileage: yes

Answer 15

the rest are ok

Answer 16

@SithsAndGiggles that's the thing all it says is gender, or political party it doesn't give any more detail of what the data is about.

Answer 17

I'd have to agree with campbell_st in that case, if you're not given the specifics. Nominal for both of the ambiguous ones.

Answer 18

So you think I should go for
political party is nominal
eye color nominal
height of giraffe continuous
gender nominal
mileage is continuous