MathGloss/Q/Quantitative variable

Examples
The following are examples of quantitative variables:
 * Weight
 * Height
 * Population size
 * Shoe size
 * Average speed of racing cars

Note that coding a gender variable as 1=male and 2=female is not quantitative in nature as the numbers do not represent an amount.

Acknowledgements
Portions of this entry were adapted from
 * Quantitative Variables at Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study. Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Retrieved 29 January 2012.