Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. June 12, 2012 Families, Fleet and the Fleet Marine Force, Force health and safety Comments Off on Fatherâs Day has a healthier meaning. Next week we kick-off National Menâs Health Week. Todayâs blog comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a teaser for next week.
Numeric variables. A numeric variable, also known as a quantitative variable, is one that can assume a number of real valuesâsuch as age or number of people in a household. However, not all variables described by numbers are considered numeric.
One variable is categorical and the other is quantitative, for instance height and gender. These are best compared by using side-by-side boxplots to display any differences or similarities in the center and variability of the quantitative variable (e.g. height) across the categories (e.g. Male and Female).