A clinic conducted a clinical trial study for new born infants. The clinic colle

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A clinic conducted a clinical trial study for new born infants. The clinic collected the following information for the 100 new born infants: birth weight, gestational age (in whole weeks), whether or not the mother has complications, and gender of the infant. Below is part of the data collected. State (write) the type of data for these variables (choose all that apply for each variable).

infant id         

    Where, in gender, 1 represents male and 2 represents female.

Categorical, Numeric, Ordinal, Nominal, Discrete, Continuous

Birth weight (2 pts):

Gestational age (2 pts):

Mother complications (2 pts):

Gender (2 pts):

infant id   Birth weight (lb) Gestational age (week) Mother complications gender 1 5.9 39 yes 1 2 6.7 40 no 2

Explanation / Answer

Infant id - discrete, numeric

Birth weight - continous, numeric

Gestational age - continous, numeric

Mother complications - nominal, categorical

Gender - nominal, categorical

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