Categorical Variable

A categorical variable is a variable that assigns each observation to exactly one of a collection of categories or groups.

See also

Contingency Table, Variable

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References

Pennsylvania State University. "Collecting Data." Lesson 1 in STAT 200: Elementary Statistics. https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat200/Lesson01.

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