STATS

Question 1

What is a ratio measurement?

Answer 1

• have an absolute zero
• length in cm and mass in kg are examples
• represent the actual amt of the attributes being measured

Question 2

What is an ordinal measurement?

Answer 2

• rank ordered
• greater than less than relationship

Question 3

What is a nominal scale measurement?

Answer 3

• elements are assigned to mutually exclusive categories
• categories are coded by name number or symbol
• no quantitative value
• gender, blood type, diagnosis are ex

Question 4

What is an interval scale measurement?

Answer 4

• rank order but intervals between the units of measurement
• no none zero
• temperature as an example