Statistical Competence

by | Jan 19, 2021 | MATH 4/6635, Teachng

Basic statistical competence involves the following components: data awareness, an understanding of certain basic statistical concepts and terminology, knowledge of the basics of collecting data and generating descriptive statistics, basic interpretation skills (the...

Qualitative or Quantitative? Discrete or Continuous?

by | May 22, 2016 | STAT 200

I record all the tricks here to determine a qualitative (categorical), quantitative, nominal, ordinal, discrete, and continuous variable. First, two main groups of variables are qualitative and quantitative. In order to distinguish them, the criterion is “Can...