Answer to Question #312787 in Statistics and Probability for Robera

Question

Classify each of the following first as qualitative or quantitative and second as nominal,

ordinal, interval or ratio measure.

a) temperatures of 22 selected refrigerators

b) hair color of women on a high school tennis team

c) numbers on the shirts of a girl’s soccer team

d) ages of students in a statistics class

e) number of pages in your statistics book

f) list of 1247 social security numbers

g) the ratings of a movie ranging from “poor” to “good” to “excellent”

h) the final grades (A,B,C,D, and F) for students in a chemistry class

i) the nationalities listed in a recent survey

j) the amount of fat (in grams) in 44 cookies

Answer 1

Answers

(a) Quantitative; Interval

(b) Qualitative; Nominal

(c) Quantitative; Nominal

(d) Quantitative; Ratio

(e) Quantitative; Ratio

(f) Quantitative; Nominal

(g) Qualitative; Ordinal

(h) Quantitative; Ordinal

(i) Qualitative; Nominal

(j) Quantitative; Ratio