Question

What should be treated as a categorical or quantitive (Population, Age in years, Race and Gender). Also, if they are either (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio)

Answer 1

Age - Quantitive / Ratio

Population- Quantitive / Ratio

Race- Categorical / Nominal

Gender- Categorical / Nominal

Explanation:

Quantitive variables :- are those which are numerical or numbers.

here Age and Population both are numerical hence both are Quantitative.

Categorical variables:- are those which are not numerical and there are two or more categories. example: Race may have categories like human, animals, plants, bacterias etc. similarlly gender have two categories like male and female.

Nominal variables: are those categorical variables where order of categoris is not important. example: Male and Female

Odinal variables: are those categorical variables where order of categoris is important. example: economic status where categories are low income,middle income,high income where oder is important.

Interval variables: are those numerical variables where difference between two value is meaningful. example: temprature, credit score etc.

Ratio variable: are those numerical variables having all properties of Interval variables and which include 0. example: weight, length. etc