Data Analysis Basics: Variables and Distribution
Categorical variables contain informa-tion that can be sorted into catego-ries, rather like sorting information into bins. Every piece of information belongs in one—and only one—bin. There are several types of categorical variables: ordinal, nominal, and di-chotomous or binary. An ordinal variable is any categorical
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