Professor Nguyen is interested in studying the effects of gender on shopping practices. In her study, she distinguishes between gender by having a variable which takes on the value of 1 for females and takes on the value of 0 for males. This is an example of using a(n):

A. Dummy variable
B. Coded variable
C. Imperfect variable
D. Identified variable


A. Dummy variable

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What will be an ideal response?

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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