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This document contains an exercise on classifying data for a student named Ruvie S. Barcoso. It involves identifying various variables as quantitative or qualitative, and indicating their level of measurement. Examples given include income, citizenship, education level, and air temperature. It also involves providing characteristics or properties of objects like store customers, voter attitudes, stock preferences, company divisions, and steel alloys that can be measured at interval, ratio, ordinal, or nominal levels.

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This document contains an exercise on classifying data for a student named Ruvie S. Barcoso. It involves identifying various variables as quantitative or qualitative, and indicating their level of measurement. Examples given include income, citizenship, education level, and air temperature. It also involves providing characteristics or properties of objects like store customers, voter attitudes, stock preferences, company divisions, and steel alloys that can be measured at interval, ratio, ordinal, or nominal levels.

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Exercises in Inferential Statistics

NAME : RUVIE S. BARCOSO


PROFESSOR : DR. NOLASCO MALABAGO
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 This is a ratio data since it is not possible to have a negative
income.

1.2. Citizenship
Answers Reasons
QUALITATIVE This is a nominal data since citizenship doesn’t have a
quantitative value.

1.3. Educational Level of Respondent


Answers Reasons
QUALITATIVE This is an ordinal data since this ca n be categorized.

1.4. Air temperature of the Sahara Desert


Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE This is an interval data since the temperature in Sahara Desert
varies from morning to night.

1.5. Number of Children in the Family


Answers Reasons
QUANTITATIVE This is a discrete data since this involves whole number.

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Exercises in Inferential Statistics

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
Ranging the amount paid by each
Interval
customer.

Ratio Ratio of the customers who


purchased items.

Ordinal Satisfaction level of customers.

Nominal Customers’ gender.

2.2. Voter Attitudes


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Scale of voters supporting a political
Interval party.

Ratio of voting polls.


Ratio
Economic status of voters.
Ordinal
Nominal Voters’ marital status.

2.3. Preference for a particular Common Stock


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
Preference of stakeholders on a
Interval particular stock.

A zero dividend share on a


Ratio particular stock.

Rank of stakeholders. Biggest share


Ordinal to lowest.

Nominal Stakeholders’ gender.

2.4. Profitability of various Divisions in a Company


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
The range of profit on various
Interval division in a company.

The profit of each division in a


Ratio
company.

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Exercises in Inferential Statistics

Rank of each division in a company.


Ordinal From Highest to Lowest Earner.

Nominal Division’s name in a company.

2.5. Hardness of Steel Alloys


Level of Measurements Characteristics or Properties
The temperature range of quenching
Interval and tempering steel alloys.

Ration of the elements of steel


Ratio alloys.

The level of hardness of each type of


Ordinal steel alloys.

Nominal Types of steel alloys.

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