DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS
TYPES OF DATA
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Ordinal and Continuous
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Nominal and Discrete
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Ordinal and Nominal
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Continuous or Discrete
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Detailed explanation-1: -Categorical variables are those that have discrete categories or levels. Categorical variables can be further defined as nominal, dichotomous, or ordinal. Nominal variables describe categories that do not have a specific order to them. These include ethnicity or gender.
Detailed explanation-2: -Within the classification of categorical data, there are two types of categorical data: nominal and ordinal.
Detailed explanation-3: -In statistics, ordinal and nominal variables are both considered categorical variables.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nominal data are a type of categorical data. That is, they are used to represent named qualities. However, nominal data have no natural rank order to them (they differ by their name only). For example, the colors red, green, and yellow all describe the color of apples.