The correct answer is: TRUE.
<u>In order to measure qualitative data quantitively, categorical variables are used</u>. These type of variables are defined by a set of positive numbers, and each number is connected to a nominal category, which has been defined based on a qualitative property.
For example, if conducting a research about holiday patterns, one of the variables registered aims to measure the season in which people travel the most hence the following categories are defined: spring (=1), summer (=2), autumn (=3) and winter (=4). This is a categorical variable. If it only had two categories it is denominated a dummy or binary variable (values: 0, 1).
Answer:
Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers.
Explanation:
In markets where competition is very intense, companies are not able to keep on competing in prices forever, as at some point their cost structures prevents sucessive price lowerings. Therefore, companies are forced to use alternative strategies to defeat their competitors and to attract larger shares of consumers to demand their products.
<u>Companies need to become more efficient in production and to introduce innovations</u>. An example of an efficiency increase is to produce at the same cost, maintaining the same market price but delivering a higher-quality product, that includes, for instance, a better packaging. This new feature has been achieved through the implementation of a new tecnique in the production process (ex: new materials for the packaging) together with an innovative and sucessful marketing campaign.
Answer:
Lincoln exempted the border states from the proclamation because he didn't want to tempt them into joining the Confederacy. Because the proclamation was a temporary war measure, it later had to be codified into law with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.