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Exercise # 1 Ailyn O. Labajo

This document contains an exercise on classifying data into quantitative and qualitative variables and identifying their appropriate level of measurement. It provides examples of classifying income, citizenship, education level, temperature, and number of children as quantitative or qualitative variables and identifying whether they are measured at the nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio level. It also gives examples of characteristics of store customers, voter attitudes, stock preferences, company divisions, and steel alloys that can be measured and classified according to the different scale levels.

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Exercise # 1 Ailyn O. Labajo

This document contains an exercise on classifying data into quantitative and qualitative variables and identifying their appropriate level of measurement. It provides examples of classifying income, citizenship, education level, temperature, and number of children as quantitative or qualitative variables and identifying whether they are measured at the nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio level. It also gives examples of characteristics of store customers, voter attitudes, stock preferences, company divisions, and steel alloys that can be measured and classified according to the different scale levels.

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Exercises in Inferential Statistics

NAME : AILYN O. LABAJO


PROFESSOR : DR. MALABAGO K. NOLASCO
EXERCISE NO. 1 : CLASSIFICATION OF DATA

APPLYING CONCEPTS

1. Identify the following as Quantitative or Qualitative variable. Indicate the level of measurement
required (minimum level).

1.1. Income per month of employees


Answers Reasons
Quantitative Ratio- Differences between from Salary Grade of the
employees can be measured (ex SG11, SG 12, SG 13…)
Interval- Ranges of Salary according to the employee’s
position or level (ex. 20K-25K, 26K-31K, 32K-47K …)

1.2. Citizenship
Answers Reasons
Qualitative Nominal- Simply identifying someone’s citizenship and
consolidating it into organized data (ex. Filipino-5 , Japanese-
10, Chinese-8)

1.3. Educational Level of Respondent


Answers Reasons
Qualitative Ordinal- Identifying the Educational Level of Respondent and
arranging from the lowest to highest level (ex. Elementary,
HS, College…)

1.4. Air temperature of the Sahara Desert


Answers Reasons
Quantitative Interval- Differences of the temperatures can be measured and
the value of 0 is arbitrary because negative values of
temperature do exist (ex. 13 degree, 26 degree, 39 degree…)

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1.5. Number of Children in the Family


Answers Reasons
Quantitative Ratio-It makes difference between ages of the children in the
family known along with information on the value of true zero
and it produces the order of the children (ex. 1st- 10, 2nd -8,
…)

2. Below are some objects of varying degrees of abstraction. Provide characteristics or properties
of each of these objects that can be measured and classified according to the four basic types of
scales.

2.1. Store Customers


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Number of customers in different
Interval
time shift
Ratio Amount purchased by the customers
employment/Social Status of the
Ordinal
customers
Nominal Gender of the customers

2.2. Voter Attitudes


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Interval Ages of the voters
Total number of votes that they
Ratio casted in single election

The candidate/s they voted from


Ordinal highest to lowest rank

Nominal The candidates they voted

2.3. Preference for a particular Common Stock


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Interval Pricing of the Stocks

Ratio Purchased Stocks


Category of Stocks by Market
Ordinal Capitalization
Types of Stocks
Nominal

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2.4. Profitability of various Divisions in a Company


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
The monthly profit for every
Interval quarter from each division

The over-all total profit from each


Ratio division

Profit made by the biggest to


Ordinal smallest division
The types of people working in
Nominal each division

2.5. Hardness of Steel Alloys


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Ranges of improved properties in
Interval steel alloys
The heat treating required to
Ratio achieve improved properties in
steel alloys

Groups of Steel Alloys


Ordinal

Nominal Alloying Elements

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