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Department of Computer Science: Prepared By: Ms. Zainab Imtiaz

The document discusses different types of numerical and categorical data, describing continuous data as measurable values that can be interval or ratio data, and discrete data that has a logical end, as well as categorical data that includes ordinal values with a set order, nominal values without order, and binary values with two options. Numerical data represents information as numbers, while categorical data includes non-numeric strings or dates.

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Department of Computer Science: Prepared By: Ms. Zainab Imtiaz

The document discusses different types of numerical and categorical data, describing continuous data as measurable values that can be interval or ratio data, and discrete data that has a logical end, as well as categorical data that includes ordinal values with a set order, nominal values without order, and binary values with two options. Numerical data represents information as numbers, while categorical data includes non-numeric strings or dates.

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Numerical
Numerical data is information that is measurable, and it is, of course, data represented as
numbers and not words or text.

• Continuous: Continuous Data represents measurements and therefore their values


can’t be counted but they can be measured. Some examples would be
1. Interval Data: Interval values represent
ordered units that have the same difference.
Therefore we speak of interval data when we
have a variable that contains numeric values
that are ordered and where we know the exact
differences between the values. It does not
have “true zero”.

2. Ratio Data: Ratio values are also ordered units


that have the same difference. Ratio values are the
same as interval values, with the difference that
they do have an absolute zero. Good examples are
height, weight, length etc.
Discrete: They have a logical end to them. Some examples include variables
Categorical
For categorical data, this is any data that isn’t a number, which can mean a string of
text or date. These variables can be broken down into nominal and ordinal values and
binary.

• Ordinal values that have a set order to them. Examples of ordinal values include
having a priority on a bug such as “Critical” or “Low” or the ranking of a race as
“First” or “Third”.

• Nominal values are the opposite of ordinal values, and they represent values with
no set order to them. Nominal value examples include variables such as “Country”
or “Marital Status”.
• Binary values that represents two values. Binary value examples include variables such as
“True/false” or “yes/no”.

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