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| Classify or categrize individuals. Each score does not actually indicate an amount; rather, it is used for identification. When you see nominal, think name. |
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| Scores indicate rank order---anything akin to 1st, 2nd, 3rd....is ordinal. |
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| Actual quantity. An equal amount separates any adjacent scores. For interval scores remember equal intervals between them. |
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| A variable with a true zero point. |
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| Allows for fractional amounts; it continues between the whole-number amounts. |
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| Arithmetic Mean....add all scores and divide by number of scores. |
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| The score that falls in the middle.....calculate by aligning scores from highest to lowest and pick score that falls in the middle |
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| The score that occurs most frequently...remember, it is possible to have a bimodal or multimodal distribution. |
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