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Group #2. Descriptive Statistics (DATA) Final

The document discusses different types of data including qualitative, quantitative discrete, and quantitative continuous data. It provides examples of each type of data and exercises for students to identify whether data sets are qualitative, quantitative discrete, or quantitative continuous. The document serves to teach students the differences between these three main categories of data.

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Group #2. Descriptive Statistics (DATA) Final

The document discusses different types of data including qualitative, quantitative discrete, and quantitative continuous data. It provides examples of each type of data and exercises for students to identify whether data sets are qualitative, quantitative discrete, or quantitative continuous. The document serves to teach students the differences between these three main categories of data.

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Facultad de la Educación, el Arte y la Comunicación

Carrera de Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros


Descriptive Statistics
Collaborative Work

Students’ name: Evelyn Castillo, Nathaly Ramón, Alejandro Torres and Ana Contento
Professor’s name: Miriam Troya Mgs.
Instruction: Made a written assignment based on the presentation topic: DATA

1. DATA
1.1 Data comes in two important aspects: Quantitative and Qualitative. It is called data to each
one of the values obtained after carrying out the statistical study and variable to the type of
data, which are a certain characteristic of the population (number of children, height,
weight, color, profession, etc).

1.2 Qualitative data


Qualitative variables are not expressed by numbers, but by a quality.Also
called Categorical or Attribute data.Qualitative data are generally described
by words or letters.Examples: Grade (A, B, C, D, F), Gender (M, F, Other),
Economic Class (Lower, Middle, Upper), etc.

1.3 Quantitative data

Quantitative data are the result of counting or measuring attributes of a


population. Data is in number. Examples: Height, Weight, Age (Years), Die
Roll on a 6-sided die, Distance (miles), Shoe Size, etc. It can also be
subdivided into two sub-classes: discrete, and continuous.

Examples of qualitative and quantitative data.

● The cats' have orange, brown, black, or white fur (qualitative).


● The boys have brown, black, blonde, and red hair (qualitative).
● There are four black cats and five orange cats (quantitative).
● The cake was 50 percent chocolate and 50 percent vanilla (quantitative).
1.3.1 Quantitative discrete data: All data that are the result of counting are called quantitative
discrete data. These data take on only certain numerical values.Discrete data have finite values,
or buckets, example. If you count the number of phone calls you receive for each day of the
week, you might get values such as zero, one, two, or three.

Discrete:

Number of children in a household.

Number of languages a person speaks.

Number of people sleeping in stats class.

1.3.2 Quantitative continuous data:

Quantitative continuous data is a continuous variable when it can take any value from any range
of values. For example, a person’s height can be 1.85 m or the weight can be 76.8 kg. They
don’t have to be concrete values. Example, Time to complete a task is continuous since it could
take 178.8977687 seconds.

Continuous:

1. Height of children.

2. Weight of cars.

3. Time to wake up in the morning.

4. Speed of the train.

Example: Data vs. Continuous data

Imagine the books on your bookshelf, the discrete data would be you have exactly six books

the continuous data would be the books range from 15 to 30 centimeters in length.
Example 1: Data Sample of Quantitative Discrete Data

The data are the number of books students carry in their backpacks. You sample five
students. Two students carry 3 books, one student carries 4 books, one student carries 2
books, and one student carries 1 book. What type of data is this?

Solution: Discrete data can only have


specific values, so it is quantitative
discrete data. We can count the numbers
of books: 3, 4, 2, 1; which cannot be
measured.

Example: Data Sample of Quantitative Continuous Data

The data are the weights of backpacks with books in them.


You sample the same five students. The weights (in
pounds) of their backpacks are 6.2, 7, 6.8, 9.1, 4.3. Notice
that backpacks carrying three books can have different
weights. What type of data is this?

It is quantitative continuous data, since weights can be


measured. As we know quantitative continuous variables
are variables for which the values are not countable and
have an infinite number of possibilities; this means that it
can take on any value in an interval.

Exercise: A professor collects information about the activities that their students do after class.
The data she collects are summarized in the pie chart Figure 1. What types of data does this
graph show?
Figure 1. Leisure activities

The graph shown above is a pie chart. The slices of the pie represent soccer, camping,

swimming, aerobics, walking, jogging, bicycling and weightlifting, respectively. In other

words, the data that the slices of the pie stand for are not numbers. Therefore, the pie chart

represents categorical, or qualitative data.

Exercise: You go to the supermarket and purchase three cans of soup (19 ounces) tomato

bisque, 14.1 ounces lentil, and 19 ounces Italian wedding), two packages of nuts (walnuts and

peanuts), four different kinds of vegetable (broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, and carrots), and two

desserts (16 ounces Cherry Garcia ice cream and two pounds (32 ounces chocolate chip

cookies).

Name data sets that are quantitative discrete, quantitative continuous, and qualitative.
Solution:

● Qualitative: Types of soups, nuts, vegetables and desserts because they are categorical.
● Quantitative discrete: The three cans of soup, two packages of nuts, four kinds of
vegetables and two desserts because you count them.
● Quantitative continuous: The weights of the soups (19 ounces, 14.1 ounces, 19
ounces) because you measure weights as precisely as possible.

Exercise: The data are the colors of backpacks. Again, you


sample the same five students. One student has a red backpack,
two students have black backpacks, one student has a green
backpack, and one student has a gray backpack.

Solution: It is Qualitative Data because the colors red, black,


black, green, and gray that is to say backpack´s colors are the
result of categorizing.
Exercise: The data are the colors of houses. You sample five houses. The colors of the houses
are white, yellow, white, red, and white. What type of data is
this?

Solution: In this case is Qualitative data too, since it is


categorizing the colors of houses and also, they can't be
measured.

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