{"id":355,"date":"2015-07-12T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T08:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org:8080\/statsbook\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:40:39","slug":"data-types","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/data-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Types"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Data can be of different types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Numerical (quantitative)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discrete \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Integer; for example counts or dates grouped by year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuous \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Real number; for example height as measured. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Categorical (qualitative)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nominal \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Different groups without order; for example dome osteotomy and wedge osteotomy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ordinal \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ordered groups; for example bed ridden, walking with frame, walking with sticks, walking unaided)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Binary (dichotomous)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>yes \/ no ; true \/ false ; dead \/ alive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The appropriate type of statistical analysis depends on the type of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What type of plot is appropriate depends mainly on the type of data to be presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data can be of different types: Numerical (quantitative) Categorical (qualitative) The appropriate type of statistical analysis depends on the type of data. What type of plot is appropriate depends mainly on the type of data to be presented. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcool.dyndns.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}