part 2.
Ordinal variables come in two flavors. In purely ordinal data the number of
distinct values is pretty much the same as the number of cases. In ordered
category variables, there are only a few values that a variable may take, but
the intervals are perceived as very different.
Interval var
part 1.
A lot depends on your discipline. Since the issue of level of measurement rose
in the 60's and early 70's there have been different viewpoint.
For some qualitative data means textual or pictorial information.
For some it means nominal level data.
For some it means variables that the meas
Hi,
I have a doubt about ordinal variables !
I understand that months (jan., feb., mar.) and level of aggression (low,
medium, high) can be accepted as qualitative ordinal variables but
my doubt is.
What about variables like seed size when using categories like small, medium
and lar