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Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Higher Mathematics 2 · Reutlingen University

Lecture film · Higher Mathematics 2: Statistics

Eye Colour, Apples, Celsius: Variables and Their Scales

Lecture film · Higher Mathematics 2: Statistics

Eye Colour, Apples, Celsius: Variables and Their Scales

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Higher Mathematics 2 · Reutlingen University

First settle whom we study and what we measure. Then the level of measurement decides what we may compute with the values.

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Eye Colour, Apples, Celsius: Variables and Their Scales

Prof. Dr. Dirk SchiebornHigher Mathematics 2 · Reutlingen University

NewOct 17, 2026 · 6 chapters

An explainer film in six chapters, made from a real lecture: population and sample, variable and value, nominal and ordinal, discrete and continuous, and the staircase of measurement levels with eleven variables from the lecture hall, including tricky cases like temperature, length and school grades. Pause anywhere and ask.

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