Concept explainers
The data in Table 1A were collected from one of the authors’ statistics classes. The first row gives the variable, and each of the other rows represents a student in the class.
TABLE 1A
Coding Explain why the variable Female, in Table 1A, is categorical, even though its values are numbers. Often, it does not make sense, or is not even possible, to add the values of a categorical variable. Does it make sense for Male? If so, what does the sum represent?
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Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data (4th Edition)
Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life (5th Edition)
Introductory Statistics (10th Edition)
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th Edition)
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