Binary data statistics examples

1. What is an example of binary data?
2. What is binary in statistics?
3. What statistical test is used for binary data?
4. What is a binary data type?

What is an example of binary data?

Some examples of binary variables, i.e. attributes, are: Smoking is a binary variable with only two possible values: yes or no. A medical test has two possible outcomes: positive or negative. Gender is traditionally described as male or female.

What is binary in statistics?

Binary data can have only two values. If you can place an observation into only two categories, you have a binary variable. For example, pass/fail and accept/reject data are binary.

What statistical test is used for binary data?

McNemar test

You would perform McNemar's test if you were interested in the marginal frequencies of two binary outcomes. These binary outcomes may be the same outcome variable on matched pairs (like a case-control study) or two outcome variables from a single group.

What is a binary data type?

Binary data is a type of data that is represented or displayed in the binary numeral system. Binary data is the only category of data that can be directly understood and executed by a computer. It is numerically represented by a combination of zeros and ones.