Using data from such publications as the Statistical Abstract of the United States, The

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Using data from such publications as the Statistical Abstract of the United States, The World Almanac, Forbes, or your local newspaper, give examples of the nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels of measurement

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QUESTION:

Using data from such publications as the Statistical Abstract of the United States, The World Almanac, Forbes, or your local newspaper, give examples of the nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels of measurement

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Level of measurement,

1. The level of measurement is nominal, if the values of the variables can only be named and not ordered.

2. The level of measurement is ordinal, if the values of the variables can be named and ordered, but the difference between two values has no meaning.

3. The level of measurement is interval, if the difference between two values has a meaning, but the variable contains no absolute zero.

4. The level of measurement is ratio, if the variable contains an absolute zero.

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