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What are the four types of quantitative data?

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  • Nominal
  • Ordinal
  • ratio
  • interval
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Nominal data

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-Data that’s grouped into categories that don’t have a natural order
- e.g. favourite colour

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Ordinal data

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  • Data grouped into categories that do have a natural order
  • e.g. A level grades
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Ratio data

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  • Data that tells us exactly how much bigger one number is than the other
  • Cannot go below zero
  • e.g. Mass
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Interval data

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  • Data that tells us exactly how much bigger one number is than the other
  • Can go below zero
  • e.g. temperature
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