EXAMPLE 1.5

Statistics class data for a different purpose. Suppose that the data for the students in the introductory statistics class were also to be used to study relationships between student characteristics and success in the course. Here, we have decided to focus on the TotalPoints and Grade as the outcomes of interest. Other variables of interest would have been included—for example, Sex, PrevStat (whether or not the student has taken a statistics course previously), and Year (student classification as first, second, third, or fourth year). ID is a categorical variable, TotalPoints is a quantitative variable, and the remaining variables are all categorical.