Question

Select a professional sport. Investigate the types of data that are collected about that sport, for example, in baseball, the level of play (A, AA, AAA, Major League), batting average, and home-run hits. For each, identify the level of measurement as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. For any quantitative data, also note if they are discrete or continuous.

Answer 1

According to the context of baseball game, level of play (A, AA, AAA, Major League), batting rate, home run, number of wins, ERA, SB, number of errors are some of the variables.

 

As per the requirement, we tabulate the above variables with the level of measurement, type of data.

Variables	Measurements	Type of Data	Discrete/Continuous
Level of play	Nominal	Qualitative
Surface	Nominal	Qualitative
Batting rate	Ratio	Quantitative	Continuous
Home runs	Interval	Quantitative	Discrete
Number of wins	Ratio	Quantitative	Discrete
ERA	Ratio	Quantitative	Continuous
SB	Ratio	Quantitative	Discrete
Number of errors	Ratio	Quantitative	Discrete