QMS 102 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Illy, Chief Operating Officer, Tromos

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Quantitative Methods
• Course: QMS 102
• Professor: Clare Chua

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Nominal: nominal scale - no ordering of the items, example: a physical example of a nominal scale is the terms we use for colours. The underlying spectrum (i. e. rainbow) is ordered but the names are nominal: example: in research activities a yes/no scale is nominal. Ordinal: ordinal data are categorical data where there is a logical ordering to the categories, the simplest ordinal scale is a ranking, example: like scale that you see on many surveys: 0" does not mean nothing the interval scale of measurement only permits mathematical operations of addition and subtraction. 0" is only an arbitrary reference point : 0" does not mean nothing . Temperature : 0 c does not mean there is no heat. Money is a good example of an everyday ratio scale of measurement. Down grade a ratio, continuous data to a categorized data, ordinal scale. The numbers may each be repeated twice or.