Definition:Variable/Descriptive Statistics/Qualitative Variable

Definition

A qualitative variable $Q$ is a variable such that:

$Q$ is not a quantitative variable

$Q$ describes each individual as either having, or not having, some specific property.

Also see

• Results about qualitative variables can be found here.

Sources

• 2011: Charles Henry Brase and Corrinne Pellillo Brase: Understandable Statistics (10th ed.): $\S 1.1$