Please use this glossary to familiarise yourself with some of the more technical terms we use on the site

Categorical Variable

A variable containing absolute values. Examples include Gender, State & Marital Status.

CHAID

A decision tree approach to segmentation.

Clustering

Clustering is a statistical technique used to classify objects in to different groups based on some similarity or similarities

Continuous Variable

A variable containing values on a continuous scale. Examples include Age, Income & Height.

Control Group

A group of individuals or entities that are isolated from a testing environment and can therefore be used as a benchmark.

Correlation

Measure of the “strength” of a relationship between two variables i.e. the level to which variables are related.