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this concerns one of my projects in Statistics. I am going to measure the frequency of my classmates' birthmonths and going to provide a probability distribution along with it. I am just wondering if it is even possible?

JB-0002
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  • Sure. Why not? Why do you think this would be impossible? – Graham Kemp Mar 03 '17 at 02:39
  • Well, from the somewhat vague discussions from our teacher, I got confused as to what variables I can and can't use. Going back, how do I do it then? Do I assign values to the months (1-12), and continue from there? – JB-0002 Mar 03 '17 at 02:45
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    You could use the names of months as the "buckets" in which you tally the birth months of your classmates. That treatment is called nominal data. If you like, you can number the months instead, so that they have the usual calendar order. This would make the months into ordinal data. There may have been a discussion in your statistics text about the different kinds of data, but for a frequency diagram the way you label the buckets doesn't make a critical difference. – hardmath Mar 03 '17 at 02:50
  • I think I got it now, lots of thanks for the advice – JB-0002 Mar 03 '17 at 03:07

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