Question

Book Genres

Calendar Year (BC/AD calendar)

Military Pay Grades

Diastolic blood pressure

what categorical description are these?

Answer 1

There are two types of categorical data, namely; the nominal and ordinal data.

nominal data : used to name variables without providing any numerical value

ordinal data : have numerical scale

Book Genres : nominal data {genres have names, not numerical}

Calendar Year (BC/AD calendar) : ordinal data {have date which are numerical}

Military Pay Grades : ordinal data {paygrades are genenrally numerical scale like 1 to 10}

Diastolic blood pressure : ordinal data {blood pressure has numerical range}

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