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Variable

This document discusses variables and attributes in statistics. It defines variables as quantitative characteristics that can be measured numerically, like height, weight, and age. Attributes are qualitative characteristics that cannot be measured, but can be classified into categories, like religion or mother tongue. Variables can be continuous, meaning they can take any value within a range, or discrete, meaning they can only take isolated whole number values. Examples of continuous variables include height and weight, while discrete variables include family size or number of students in a class.

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Variable

This document discusses variables and attributes in statistics. It defines variables as quantitative characteristics that can be measured numerically, like height, weight, and age. Attributes are qualitative characteristics that cannot be measured, but can be classified into categories, like religion or mother tongue. Variables can be continuous, meaning they can take any value within a range, or discrete, meaning they can only take isolated whole number values. Examples of continuous variables include height and weight, while discrete variables include family size or number of students in a class.

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Variable and Attribute

The character of the statistical


information collected is of two types-
quantitative and qualitative.
Variable:-
The quantitative character of the statistical information is
called variable.
 The variable can always be measured.
 Hence the variable can be stated in numerical terms
For example:-
 Height is 5’6’’.
 Weight is 56 kg.
 Age is 29 years.
 Monthly income is Rs.5000/- per months.
Attribute
The qualitative character of the statistical information is known
as attribute.
 An attribute can not be measured.
 Hence they can not be stated in numerical terms but can only be
classified under different categories.
For example:-Religion or Mother tongue can be measured but can
be classified into different categories
 The religion can be classified in to different category such as
Hindu,Muslim,Buddhist,Christian etc.
 The Mother tongue can be categorised in to
Bengali,Hindi,Tamil,Panjabi etc.
Types of variable
Variable can be classified in two types
1) Continuous variable
2) Discrete variable
Continuous variable
A variable is said to be continuous when it can take any value
within a specified interval.
For example:-
 The height of an individual may be 65.2 inches, it may be
65.23 inches or it also may be 65.22709 inches.
 Weight may be 58 kg, or may be 58.72 kg or it also may be
58.75986 kg.
 The age may be 27 years, it may be 27 years 9 months or it
also may be 27 years 9 months 23 days.
Discrete variable

A discrete variable can take only some isolated values or


whole numbers, it can not take any fractional value.
For example:-
 Total number of member is a family is an example of
discrete variable, since it may me either 2 or 3 or 4or 5 or 6
and so on. It can not take fractional value, for example ,we
can not speak that the number of member in a family is 4.2
or 5.3 it will be either 4 or 5.
 Similarly the total number of student in a class can not be
26.4 or 27.1 it will be either 26 or 27 i.e. a whole number.

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