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.
Numeric variables may be further described as either continuous or discrete: The data collected for a numeric variable are quantitative data. Categorical variables have values that describe a 'quality' or 'characteristic' of a data unit, like 'what type' or 'which category'.