Question: For the description of data given below, identify the W's, name the variables, specify for each variable whether its use indicates it should be treated

For the description of data given below, identify the W's, name the variables, specify for each variable whether its use indicates it should be treated as categorical or quantitative, and, for any quantitative variable, identify the units in which it was measured (or note that they were not provided).

Owing to several major ocean oil spills by tank vessels, Congress passed the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, which requires all tankers to be designed with thicker hulls. Further improvements in the structural design of a tank vessel have been proposed since then, each with the objective of reducing the likelihood of an oil spill and decreasing the amount of outflow in the event of a hull puncture. To aid in this development, Marine Technology (Jan. 1995) reported on the spillage amount and cause of puncture for 50 recent major oil spills from tankers and carriers

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