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In statistics, a data set is called homogenous if it is made up of similar people, cells or traits.

For example, a data set made up of 19 year old school students enrolled for science stream is a homogeneous sample. Heterogeneous sample is just opposite of homogenous sample. While analysing a data set, it is called homogeneous if variables are either binary or categorical and if the variables are mixed ( having properties of both binary and categorical), then such data set is always heterogeneous.

Thus the term homigeneity is widely used in statistics to have the general sense of being the same. A data set is analyzed for homogeneity using following ways :