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Ordinal categorical variables

Columns regarding a person's income do not have to be numerical. If the income amount is split into distinct categories, the new column will be categorical. Since these categories will have a natural order (smallest income to largest), the variable is considered ordinal.

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Working with Categorical Data in Python

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