Data Types

Ordinal Scales: Ordinal Scales are measurement systems that possess the property of magnitude, but not the property of intervals. The property of rational zero is not important if the property of intervals is not satisfied. Any time ordering, ranking, or rank ordering is involved, the possibility of an ordinal scale should be examined. As with a nominal scale, computation of most of the statistics is not appropriate when the scale type is ordinal.

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