Please help me figure this out so I can know how to do it on my test! For the fo

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Please help me figure this out so I can know how to do it on my test!

For the following research situation, identify the independent and dependent variables. Classify each in terms of level of measurement and whether or not the variable is discrete or continuous. Use the table below as your guide to complete the table in Word or Excel and upload your answer table. A graduate student is studying sexual harassment on college campuses and asks 500 female students if they personally have experienced any such incidents. Each student is asked to estimate the frequency of these incidents as either "often, sometimes, rarely or never" The research also gathers data on age and major to see if there is any connection between these variables and frequency of sexual harassment.

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Sol:

variable name:

Frequency of sexual harassment

Type of variable categorical as it has levels 4

often.sometimes ,rarely or never

Frequency of sexual harasment is dependent variable

level of measurement ordinal

discrete variable

Second variable name

:age

level of measurement:

For interval-ratio level of measurement the categories (or values) of a variable can be rank-ordered and the

differences between these categories (or values) are constant. Examples of variables measured at the interval-ratio level are age, income, height and weight.

(Interval and Ratio levels of measurement are sometimes called Continuous or Scale).

Continuous

Independent varaiable IV

Variable 3:Major

yes/no

Binomial variable

variable variable type level of measuremnt type Frequency of sexual harassment DV ordinal Discrete age IV INTERVAL-RATIO CONTINUOUS major IV Nominal Discrete

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