In one or two sentences describe your population. What did you use for your qualitative data? Is it nominal or ordinal?

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1. In one or two sentences describe your population.
2. What did you use for your qualitative data? Is it nominal or ordinal?
3. What did you use for your quantitative data?
Transcribed Image Text:1. In one or two sentences describe your population. 2. What did you use for your qualitative data? Is it nominal or ordinal? 3. What did you use for your quantitative data?
Pie Chart of species
Category
sunfish
bass
carp
Transcribed Image Text:Pie Chart of species Category sunfish bass carp
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From the given information, the pie chart is given for species under three categories.

In the given situation, the population is the number of fishes under the different categories.

 

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Nominal: Nominal scale is a data type which is used for labelling the categories without any natural ordering.

Ordinal: Ordinal scale is a data type which is used for labelling the ordered categories.

 

Explanation:

In the given situation, there are three categories. These categories are categorized by using type of fish.

That is, we are just labelling the categories but not ordering.

Hence, the qualitative data represented by nominal scale.

 

 

 

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