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It is the Characteristic or trait which is going to be measured. These characteristics take different
values in different persons, places or things, so we label a characteristic as variable.
E.g.: blood pressure, weight, height, hemoglobin
TYPES OF VARIABLES
1. Quantitative variable
- Outcomes of a variable obtained through measurement or counting
- A variable that can be measured in the usual sense
E.g.: Weight of pre-school children, age of patients
2. Qualitative variable
- A variable which cannot be directly measured rather classified into different categories based on mere
possession of the characteristics.
E.g.: ethnic group, possessing a characteristic or not, such as smokers and non-smokers. Here we use
frequencies falling in each category of the variable.
3. Random variable
Results only by chance factors i.e. cannot be predicted
6. Independent variable
- is a factor that we are interested to study
E.g. meat intake in grams per day