DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS
TYPES OF DATA
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nominal
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ordinal
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interval
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ratio
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Detailed explanation-1: -The teacher of a class of third graders records the percentage that each student got correct on the last science test. This is the ratio level of measurement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ordinal Data Levels of Measurement Values of ordinal variables have a meaningful order to them. For example, education level (with possible values of high school, undergraduate degree, and graduate degree) would be an ordinal variable.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ordinal Scale is defined as a variable measurement scale used to simply depict the order of variables and not the difference between each of the variables.
Detailed explanation-4: -Student rank in class is discrete, quantitative data at the ordinal level of measurement.
Detailed explanation-5: -Data collected on a student’s age, height, weight, and grades will be measured on the ratio level, so we have a ratio measurement. In each of these cases, there is an absolute zero that has real meaning.