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Old 05-16-2008, 03:02 AM
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For each of the following classify the data as nominal, ordinal, discrete, binary or continuous?

nominal: if you answer with a specific number , eg. one, two , three, -405 ...ordinal: if the answer is: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...discrete: if the answers are distinct from the other... or the distances between two adjacent numbers are the same... like 1,2,3,4,or 1, 1.5 , 2 , 2.5 , 3 , 3.5 ....or red, yellow, blue, green, ...binary: the answers are either one or the other ...like 0 or 1 .. . . yes or nocontinuous: if the answer is found in the real number set or its interval, the answer may be rational or irrational .. . .. .
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