Type of Data
Data can be of several types
- Quantitative data data is a number
- Often this is a continuous decimal number to a specified number of significant digits
- Sometimes it is a whole counting number
- Categorical data data one of several categories
- Qualitative data data is a pass/fail or the presence or lack of a characteristic
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