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Keywords: gender, ordinal, nominal, discrete, variable

A variable which places the observations in categories, e.g. gender, colour of M&M's, type of fish

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a variable whose values indicate a category to which an observation or an object belongs; may be nominal (e.g. eye colour), ordinal (e.g. low, medium, high), or cyclical (e.g. Monday, Tuesday, ... Sunday).

en.wikibooks.org

a discrete variable

core.ecu.edu

also called qualitative variable A variable whose possible values are one of a number of categories. Although the values may be represented by numeric codes, the numbers are not thought of as measured or counted quantities. cf. quantitative variable.

math.usask.ca

a characteristic that has been measured on the nominal scale.

power.education.uconn.edu

A variable that can take values that represent distinct categories.

cirem.co.uk

A variable whose value ranges over categories and has no numerical value, such as: red, green, blue.

csm-oxford.org.uk

A variable that organizes respondents into groups of items based on classification by type or by kind (e.g., political affiliation, gender, ethnicity).

ncrel.org

A categorical variable groups items into pre-defined discrete, non-continuous classes (male, female), (board certified, not board certified). Categories may reflect a natural order, in which case they are called ordinal (cancer stage: I, II, III, or IV), (hospitals rankings: good, better, best).

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Keywords: yes, belongs, race, car, instead

A piece of information that can be put in a single category, instead of being given a number: for example, the information about whether a person owns a car or about whether the person belongs to a certain race can be put in the category of “yes” or the category of “no.

cstprogram.org

Keywords: string, character, list, limited, specified

a character string which has a limited number of values specified as an ordered list

sir.com.au