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.
Most data fall into one of two groups: numerical or categorical. 1  Numerical data. 2  Categorical data: Categorical data represent characteristics such as a personâs gender, marital status, hometown, or the types of movies they like. Categorical data can take on numerical values (such as â1â indicating male and â2â indicating female), but those numbers donât have mathematical meaning.