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title: "Categorical affects Numeric"
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# Categorical affects Numeric

A categorical variable can affect a numeric variable by changing one of its properties - the **mean value** - depending on the value taken by the categorical variable.

The controls look like this:

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Here, you can see that if the Light variable has the value **Bright**, then the **Height** mean value will have 700 added to it.

If the value is **Dark**, then no change will be applied and **Height** will have it's usual mean value of 5000.