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SimLibrarian (talk | contribs) m periods only for complete-sentence image captions (MOS:CAPFRAG), dash style (MOS:DASH), rm ampersands (MOS:AMP), spelled out short integers (MOS:NUMERAL), non-breaking space use (MOS:NBSP) |
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==Encoded Variable==
A color code encodes a variable, which may have different representations, where the color code type should match the variable type:
* [[Categorical variable]] – the variable may represent discrete values of unordered qualitative data (e.g.
** [[Binary data#Binary variable|Binary variables]] are typically treated as a categorical variable (e.g. [[gendered associations of pink and blue|sex]])
* [[Quantitative variable]] – the variable represents ordered, quantitative data (e.g. age)
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