Data analysis is a fundamental process in any project. However, data can be lumped into different types, with categorical and continuous data seeming almost opposed at first glance. That said, ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so ...

The focus of this tutorial is on “associations” between two categorical variables. The scenario we will examine is the following: Are managerial status and gender at the bank related? Naturally, we ...

Microsoft Excel can perform numerous statistical functions, as well as create charts from statistical data. Statistical data includes numeric variables or word variables, also called categorical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In many surveys, the data comprise a large number of categorical variables that suffer from item nonresponse. Standard methods for multiple ...

Missing data are common in survey data sets. Enrolled subjects do not often have data recorded for all variables of interest. The inappropriate handling of them may negatively affect the inferences ...