Re: What is a qualitative ordinal variable?

2002-02-26 Thread Art Kendall
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

Re: What is a qualitative ordinal variable?

2002-02-26 Thread Art Kendall
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

What is a qualitative ordinal variable?

2002-02-26 Thread Voltolini
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