Ibuprofen is a medication in the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug class that is used for treating pain, fever, and inflammation. This includes painful menstrual periods, migraines, and rheumatoid arthritis. About 60% of people improve with any given NSAID, and it is recommended that if one does not work then another should be tried. It may also be used to close a patent ductus arteriosus in a premature baby. It can be used by mouth or intravenously. It typically begins working within an hour.
Data can be qualitative or quantitative. 1  Qualitative data is descriptive information (it describes something). 2  Quantitative data, is numerical information (numbers).
So far, so good. But this is just the highest level of data: there are also different types of quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative Flavors: Continuous Data and Discrete Data. There are two types of quantitative data, which is also referred to as numeric data: continuous and discrete. As a general rule, counts are discrete and measurements are continuous. Discrete data is a count that can't be made more precise. Typically it involves integers.