Question

Because of the difficulty of weighing a bear in the woods, researchers caught and measured 54 bears, recording their weight, neck size, length, and sex. They hoped to find a way to estimate weight from the other, more easily determined quantities.

Which of the following are quantitative variables for this study?

Answer 1

Qualitative variables take on values that are names or labels. The color of a ball (e.g., red, green, blue) or the breed of a dog (e.g., collie, shepherd, terrier) would be examples of qualitative or categorical variables.

Quantitative variables are numeric. They represent a measurable quantity.(e.g. age,height,weight)

So here  weight, neck size, length are Quantitative variables because they are numeric.

Sex is qualitative variable because is has outcome Male & Female.