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Vanshraj Roy

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Oct 10, 2020, 12:50:25 PM10/10/20
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Date should be numerical variable - we can do some numerical calculations (like addition and subtraction) to dates. 

Day of the week make sense to be a categorical but date should be numerical.

Papree Dhar

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Oct 10, 2020, 12:56:54 PM10/10/20
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We cannot perform any addition or subtraction operation on date variable so it is categorical

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 22:20, Vanshraj Roy <vansh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Date should be numerical variable - we can do some numerical calculations (like addition and subtraction) to dates. 

Day of the week make sense to be a categorical but date should be numerical.

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bhavya aggarwal

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Oct 10, 2020, 1:56:48 PM10/10/20
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Exactly but, the answer shows otherwise.
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