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| Ordinal measurement | a level of measurement that is characterized by having a rank or order to the measurement of the variable attributes, mathematically this allows all functions of nominal measures plus ranking -- making greater than and less than comparisons. Statistically acceptable techniques are median, Interquartile range, Spearman's rho, Mann-Whitney U. Examples include: military grades (private, sergeant etc.), most attitude question choices [(1)strongly agree to (6) strongly disagree]. |
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