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Categorical (also called nominal) data can take on a limited number of possible values called categories. Categorical values "label", they do not "measure". Please use [ordinal-data] tag for discrete but ordered data types.

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How to detect categorical data masquerading as continuous?

@whuber makes the correct explanation for this question. The data are categorical, discrete or continuous depending on your construction of the probability space, i.e. they are a modelling choice. For …
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