Nov 5, 2024 · The broader context is a terminological jungle for different kinds of data, and within that the continuing use of S.S. Stevens' distinction between nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales, …

Mar 10, 2018 · According to Yale: Categorical variables represent types of data which may be divided into groups (Lacey M, 1997) To me, dates do not fit this definition. They are ordinal, as one date is …

Jul 4, 2015 · Is nominal, ordinal, & binary for quantitative data, qualitative data, or both? Ask Question Asked 10 years, 5 months ago Modified 7 years, 8 months ago

The question about "correlation" measure between a nominal and an ordinal variable is less apparent. The reason of the difficulty is that ordinal scale is, by its nature, more "mystic" or "twisted" than …

Likert's scale with 5 levels can be safely treated as ordinal variables, and the other two variables generated from the string variables are probably nominal variables. To test the association of Ordinal …

Nov 23, 2022 · With ordinal data, we assume that there is ordering between the categories, the values do not have standard numerical interpretation (you cannot subtract them, etc) as we can do with …

Having the data, say: 10 questions on the ordinal level (say 0-5 scale, where 0="not at all", 5="all the time"), I want to tranform them so that they could be treated as proper interval level data for …

Proportions are neither nominal nor ordinal - they are continuous values. You don't need to check if your categories are normally distributed (which makes no sense anyway, as categories have no order), …

Dec 15, 2024 · Does a boxplot assume interval data? If not, is it then fine to use a box plot to represent Likert-scale (ordinal) data?

Sep 2, 2017 · 1 This question already has answers here: Correlation coefficient between a (non-dichotomous) nominal variable and a numeric (interval) or an ordinal variable (2 answers)