By using the right data type for a particular variable and understanding how to convert data types, you can write efficient code and reduce errors in your program.

Developers should have a basic proficiency of a language's data types. In this article, Irina Medvinskaya presents an overview of two types of predefined C# variables: value types and reference types.

JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

Survey data often have a continuous response variable and a large number of (mostly categorical) explanatory variables. A new approach to screening or selecting explanatory variables from such data ...

Continuous variables are simulated using either Fleishman’s third order or Headrick’s fifth-order power method transformation. Simulation occurs at the component level for continuous mixture ...

Most of the indices that measure diversity depend on variables that have various statistical types (e. g. circular, fuzzy, ordinal) and that go through a matrix of distances among species. We show how ...