Quiz #1 - Discrete vs. continuous variables (Topic 1)

Number of calls received by the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology help desk in a day (imagine you have data for many business days)

approximately continuous

Number of deliveries Amazon makes to residences in the US (imagine data for many days)

approximately continuous

Number of small-scale gold miners in Peru, i.e. number of illegal, informal, and artisanal miners (imagine you have annual data for many years)

approximately continuous

Miles driven in a privately-owned car or SUV or truck in a month (imagine data on many vehicles)

continuous (not approximately continuous)

Time it takes a personal shopper in an HEB store to pull all of the items on a customer's online order off the shelves (imagine data for many online orders)

continuous (not approximately continuous)

Weight of gold mined in Peru (imagine you have annual data for many years)

continuous (not approximately continuous)

Number of franchises (stores) a Subway franchisee has (imagine you have data for many Subway franchisees)

discrete (not a dummy variable)

Number of semesters an undergraduate took courses before graduating with a Bachelor degree (imagine data on many undergraduates)

discrete (not a dummy variable)

Antibody test shows whether a person had a previous coronavirus infection (imagine data on many individuals)

dummy variable

Whether or not a person had a flu vaccine as of November 1, 2020 (imagine you have data for many persons)

dummy variable