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Numerical vs. Categorical Marital status of each member of a randomly selected group of adults is an example of what type of variable? numerical categorical The average number of hours spent completing statistics homework for a randomly selected group of statistics students is an example of what of variable? numerical categorical In a survey of married couples were asked. "Do you have children?" The response was electronically recorded as a "1" for yes and a "0" for no. This is an example of ellipsis random sample unstacked numerical data coded categorical data None of the above

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The variable Marital status can take only values like Married, Unmarried, Divorced and cannot take any numerical values hence it is a categorical variable

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The number of hours can only be measured in numerical values and hence in this case we have a numerical variable.

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Instead of collecting yes and no as answer we have coded "1" for yes and "0" for no. Hence this is an example of coded categorical data.

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