Question: At the final assembly point of BMW cars in Graz, Austria, the car's engine and transmission arrive from Germany and France, respectively. A quality control inspector, visiting for the day, selects a simple random sample of n cars from the N cars available for inspection, and records the total number of engine and transmission nonconformances for each of the n cars.
(a) Is the variable of interest univariate, bivariate or multivariate?
(b) Is the variable of interest quantitative or qualitative?
(c) Describe the statistical population.
(d) Suppose the number of nonconformances in the engine and transmission are recorded separately for each car. Is the new variable univariate, bivariate, or multivariate?