A variable that is not numerical but descriptive or categoric.
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A random variable which can take qualitative values rather than numeric values. For example, the question "What colour are your eyes?" will generate qualitative answers.
Box [and whisker] plots show 5 key statistics of a set of numerical data. It is of no use for qualitative data. From the smallest to the largest, the statistics plotted are:The minimum valueThe lower quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than a quarter of the observations)The median (the value of the variable that is greater than half the observations)The upper quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than three quarters of the observations)The maximum value.(In slightly refined versions, outliers are separately identified).The median is a measure of central tendency (average value). The difference between the quartiles is a measure of dispersion or spread around the average. The relative values of the five indicate whether or not the data set is skewed.Box [and whisker] plots show 5 key statistics of a set of numerical data. It is of no use for qualitative data. From the smallest to the largest, the statistics plotted are:The minimum valueThe lower quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than a quarter of the observations)The median (the value of the variable that is greater than half the observations)The upper quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than three quarters of the observations)The maximum value.(In slightly refined versions, outliers are separately identified).The median is a measure of central tendency (average value). The difference between the quartiles is a measure of dispersion or spread around the average. The relative values of the five indicate whether or not the data set is skewed.Box [and whisker] plots show 5 key statistics of a set of numerical data. It is of no use for qualitative data. From the smallest to the largest, the statistics plotted are:The minimum valueThe lower quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than a quarter of the observations)The median (the value of the variable that is greater than half the observations)The upper quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than three quarters of the observations)The maximum value.(In slightly refined versions, outliers are separately identified).The median is a measure of central tendency (average value). The difference between the quartiles is a measure of dispersion or spread around the average. The relative values of the five indicate whether or not the data set is skewed.Box [and whisker] plots show 5 key statistics of a set of numerical data. It is of no use for qualitative data. From the smallest to the largest, the statistics plotted are:The minimum valueThe lower quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than a quarter of the observations)The median (the value of the variable that is greater than half the observations)The upper quartile (the value of the variable that is greater than three quarters of the observations)The maximum value.(In slightly refined versions, outliers are separately identified).The median is a measure of central tendency (average value). The difference between the quartiles is a measure of dispersion or spread around the average. The relative values of the five indicate whether or not the data set is skewed.
Descriptive, non-numeric, qualitative. Furthermore, they cannot be ordered (as in small, medium, large)
Descriptive statistics label, name, or give information about a variable. Inferential stats are inferred from a smaller data set to be valid for the whole population.
In statistics it could mean the sum of the values for the y-variable.