For each description of data, identify theW’s, name the variables, specify for each variable whether itsuse indicates that it should be treated as categorical or quantitative, and, for any quantitative variable, identify the units inwhich it was measured (or note that they were not provided). Schools The State Education Department requires localschool districts to keep these records on all students: age,race or ethnicity, days absent, current grade level, standardized test scores in reading and mathematics, and anydisabilities or special educational needs
For each description of data, identify theW’s, name the variables, specify for each variable whether itsuse indicates that it should be treated as categorical or quantitative, and, for any quantitative variable, identify the units inwhich it was measured (or note that they were not provided). Schools The State Education Department requires localschool districts to keep these records on all students: age,race or ethnicity, days absent, current grade level, standardized test scores in reading and mathematics, and anydisabilities or special educational needs
There are broadly two types of data: Quantitative or numerical and Qualitative or categorical. These data can be further categorized in four scale of measurement namely ordinal (variables with an ordered series), nominal (variables with no rankings), discrete (countable) and continuous (variables that can be measured or scale).
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