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What is the level of measurement for Year of Birth nominal or ordinal?
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∙ 14y ago
Year of birth is interval level of measurement; age is ratio.
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ordinal
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Is grade scores an example of ratio scales?
Grade scores are an ordinal level of measurement. A ratio level of measurement would be weight of a person or how much money a person has.
Which level of measurement is required when determining median?
interval
What level of measurement is used for age?
It's Ratio.
Accuracy refers to the level of detail to which a measurement is taken?
False
What is The actual numerical value assigned to nominal level variable?
The whole point of a nominal variable is that is has no numerical value associated with it. With a binary measure you can allocated the values 1 and 0 or +1 and -1 for observations where the attribute is present or absent. If there are more than 2 values that the nominal variable can take then you can allocate any numbers that you want but in all cases the numbers do not have a value: they are simply symbols which can help for sorting and for binary comparisons.
What scale of measurement is educational level?
nominal
Is the category of ages nominal or ordinal data?
Neither, age is at a ratio level of measurement.
Is Gender nominal or ordinal?
Gender is nominal. Nominal is categorical only; no ordering scheme. Ordinal level of measurement places some order on the data, but the differences between the data can't be determined or are meaningless.
IS A major limitation of the nominal level of measurement is that a particular score represents only position with respect to some other score?
no. its a limitation of an ordinal variable not a nominal.
Differences between ordinal scale and nominal scale?
I've included a couple of links which should explain better the differences among the four levels of measurement: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio. The nominal level can be thought of as the "name" level. I'll give you an example of nominal level of measurement. Perhaps you are collecting data on the types of cars that go through an intersection. You classify the vehicles passing by as trucks, cars and motorcycles and count how many of each pass by. Ordinal is the "order" level, where some natural order of data is possible. The difference between measurements has no physical meaning. An example of ordinal level of measurement. A hospital asks in the emergency room, for patients to describe their pain on a level of 1 to 10, which 10 being the most severe. As given in the first link, it is interesting that there is not complete agreement on this system of classification.
What is the lowest level of measurement that a median can be computed?
At least ordinal
What level of measurement is the amount of gasoline pumped by a filling station during a day nominal ordinal interval ratio?
It is ratio; it has a natural zero and is numerical data.
What level of measurement is what is your major?
That would be a nominal measurement.
What level of measurement is required to determine the mode?
nominal
What level of measurement is ethnicity?
It is nominal.
What level of measurement is a bar code?
The level of measurement of a bar code is nominal.
What is the level of measurement family history and illness?
Ordinal
