Nominal
- Names (named categories)
- Unordered
- Category
- 2 categories, either it is or it isn’t
- Not numbered
Ordinal
- In Order
- No mathematical value
- Arranged in order
Interval
- Numerical
- 0 does not indicated any absence
- Calendar, years and temperature
Ratio
- 0 indicates absence
- Height, age, wage, money
Thoughts
It was interesting learning about different types of data and how it’s categorised. There’s so much data acquired everyday, we need to be able to control all of it.
References
Week 2 Lecture Pod. (2018). Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/176274669
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