Weight is a measurement that quantifies how heavy an individual is. It is often used as a continuous quantitative variable and plays an important role in health-related studies and body composition analysis.
Related terms
Body Mass Index (BMI): A measure of body weight relative to height often used to assess whether an individual is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese.
Outliers: Extreme values in the data set that significantly differ from the majority of weights and might impact statistical analyses.
Distribution: The pattern or spread of weights across the sample population.