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Independent Variables

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Independent Variables

When working with more than one independent variables, the first classification is the scale of the independent variables.  Since more than one variable is involved, they may not be on the same scale.

Nominal
Nominal and Numerical
bulletOnly nominalbulletNominal data is classified into groups that cannot be ordered or ranked.  For example, students are classified by academic major.
bulletNominal and numericalbulletNumerical data consists of numbers generated by some type of measurement and is continuous.
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