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  2. Categorical variable - Wikipedia

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    Categorical variables represent a qualitative method of scoring data (i.e. represents categories or group membership). These can be included as independent variables in a regression analysis or as dependent variables in logistic regression or probit regression , but must be converted to quantitative data in order to be able to analyze the data.

  3. Qualitative research - Wikipedia

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    Qualitative research is a ... ascertain using standard measures and well validated standardized instruments to assess coping behaviors and dependent variables ...

  4. Variable and attribute (research) - Wikipedia

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    A variable is a logical set of attributes. [1] Variables can "vary" – for example, be high or low. [ 1 ] How high, or how low, is determined by the value of the attribute (and in fact, an attribute could be just the word "low" or "high"). [ 1 ] (

  5. Qualitative property - Wikipedia

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    Qualitative properties are properties that are observed and can generally not be measured with a numerical result, unlike quantitative properties, which have numerical characteristics. Description [ edit ]

  6. Qualitative variation - Wikipedia

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    An index of qualitative variation (IQV) is a measure of statistical dispersion in nominal ... is distributed as a chi-squared variable with n − 1 degrees of ...

  7. Qualitative comparative analysis - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a data analysis based on set theory to examine the relationship of conditions to outcome. QCA describes the relationship in terms of necessary conditions and sufficient conditions. [1]

  8. Continuous or discrete variable - Wikipedia

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    A variable of this type is called a dummy variable. If the dependent variable is a dummy variable, then logistic regression or probit regression is commonly employed. In the case of regression analysis, a dummy variable can be used to represent subgroups of the sample in a study (e.g. the value 0 corresponding to a constituent of the control ...

  9. Factor analysis of mixed data - Wikipedia

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    The data include quantitative variables =, …, and qualitative variables =, …,.. is a quantitative variable. We note: . (,) the correlation coefficient between variables and ;; (,) the squared correlation ratio between variables and .; In the PCA of , we look for the function on (a function on assigns a value to each individual, it is the case for initial variables and principal components ...