Definition talk:Variable/Descriptive Statistics

In what way is a variable in descriptive statistics different from a variable in other branches of mathematics? I will grant that the variable as used in predicate logic is somewhat more specialised, but the rest of that page is as generalised as is possible to be, and subsumes the definition here. --prime mover (talk) 20:28, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Brase & Brase differentiate between individuals (objects) and data describing individuals (variables). Do you think their approach is confusing/misleading? --GFauxPas (talk) 20:38, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

From that one-liner definition, no. Individuals are not variables.

The point I am making is: variables in the context of descriptive statistics are still variables in the general sense as defined at the top of page Definition:Variable (Logic). IMO that page has been misnamed, as it is not only about logic. The bit about variables in the context of predicate logic did need to be extracted and put into a separate page (my fault, I hadn't got round to putting a refactor template at the top). The rest of that page applies not only to logic but to all of mathematics.

Hence this page is (if anything) a subpage of the Variables page, which is a general page of which this one is a specialism. --prime mover (talk) 20:52, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

So, scrap the top part of what's on "Definition:Variable (Descriptive Statistics)", and transclude Quantitative Variable and Qualitative Variable into Definition:Variable? --GFauxPas (talk) 20:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Leave it - I'll sort it out. --prime mover (talk) 21:13, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

... that's more the thing I was thinking of. Does that make sense as a conceptual structure? --prime mover (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Seems good to me. --GFauxPas (talk) 21:45, 25 September 2012 (UTC)