EXAMPLE 1.4 Accounting Class Data for a Different Purpose

Suppose the data for the students in the accounting class were also to be used to study relationships between student characteristics and success in the course. For this purpose, we might want to use a data set that includes other variables such as Gender, PrevAcct (whether or not the student has taken an accounting course in high school), and Year (student classification as first, second, third, or fourth year). The label, student identifier, is a categorical variable, variables involving points are quantitative, and the remaining variables are all categorical.