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Variables are characteristics or qualities of a person, animal, or object that you can count or measure. As the term suggests, the value of the variable can vary, or change. For example, a person’s age, a dog’s weight, or the height of a building are all different types of variables.
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Types of variables
There are two types of variables that are used to analyze and interpret data: qualitative variables, and quantitative ones.
In turn, quantitative variables are divided into discrete and continuous ones.
In the next lesson, we’ll teach you how to create a frequency table.
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