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How. to know if your data is numerical or categorical​

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Qualitative or categorical data have no logical order, and can't be translated into a numerical value. Eye colour is an example, because 'brown' is not higher or lower than 'blue'. Quantitative or numerical data are numbers, and that way they 'impose' an order. Examples are age, height, weight.
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Categorical data don't have any logical order and it can't be translated into a numerical value.

Numerical data are numbers and they represent some order and value.

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