Materi Analisis Data Kategori

PROBLEM 1

In the following examples,
distinguish between response
and explanatory variables
• Attitude toward abortion on demand

Attitude toward abortion on demand
(favor, oppose); Gender (male,female)
• Heart disease (yes, no); Cholesterol
level
• Race (white, nonwhite); Gender(male,
female); vote for the President
(Republic, Democrat, Other); income
• Hospital (A, B); treatment(T1, T2),
Patient outcome (survive, die)

What scale of measurement is
most appropriate for the
following
variables

• Political party affiliation (democrat,

republican, other)
• Highest degree obtained ( none, high school,
bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate
• Patient condition (good, fair, serious, critical)
• Patient survive (in numbers of months)
• Location of hospital in which data collected
(London, Boston, Rochester)

Describe a potential study that
would have a categorical
response variable
• List variables that would be
important in the study
• Distinguish between response and
explanatory variables
• For each variable, identify the
measurement scale
• Indicate whether it would be treated

as continous or discrete