Question

Question 11. For each of the following variables, indicate whether they are categorical or numerical. Also, write down what type of graph can be drawn for each.

1. Civil status of participants.
2. Height of participants.

Answer 1

Ans A). Civil status of participants : Categorical attribute. More specifically, it is an ordinal attribute since the civil status have distinct values which can be arranged in an order.
For categorical data, we can use bar graphs or pie charts where each bar or pie would represent value pertaining to each civil status.

Ans B). Height of participants: Numerical attribute

Because, height is kind of continuous data it have meaningfull differences and ratio properties. More specifically its a ratio attribute.

We can use line graphs to show the value of height since it a continuous numerical attribute. For example in height weight data, we can easily plot height vs weight line graph.

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