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A method of statistical analysis broadly applicable to a number of research designs, used to determine differences among the means of two or more groups on a variable. The independent variables are usually nominal, and the dependent variable is usual an interval.
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A categorical variable (sometimes called a nominal variable) is one that has two or more categories, but there is no intrinsic ordering to the categories. For example, gender is a categorical variable having two categories (male and female) and there is no intrinsic ordering to the categories.
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www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/whatstat/nominal_ordinal...
www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/whatstat/nominal_ordinal_interval.htm
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Level of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The " levels of measurement ", or scales of measure are expressions that typically refer to the theory of scale types developed by the psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens. Stevens proposed his th...
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Singular; nominal variable ... nominal variable (plural nominal variables) ... nominal scale...
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominal_variable
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nominal_variable
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nominal variable A variable for which values represent the names of things, with no order implied. ... Why are none of the measures of variability appropriate for a nominal variable?
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when you count something, it is sometimes a nominal variable. For example, the number of bacteria colonies on a plate is a measurement variable; you count the number of colonies, and there are 87 colonies on one plate, 92 on another plate, etc.
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udel.edu/~mcdonald/statvartypes.html
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Nominal variable: Categorical variable which simply classifies. ... Examples: gender, employment status, marital status, type of school, blood type, ... ... Back to first slide...
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www.csus.edu/indiv/b/barricks/Ed%20Research/Instruments...
www.csus.edu/indiv/b/barricks/Ed%20Research/Instruments/tsld005.htm
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A director of an agency is hiring temporary help. In making plans, he has to know whether there isi any difference in the use of the agency at different seasons of the year. Last year there were 28 new clients in winter, 33 in spring, 16 in summer, and 51 in fall. ... On the basis of last years data, ... By OTA - Overall OTA Rating...
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www.brainmass.com/homework-help/statistics/all-topics/9...
www.brainmass.com/homework-help/statistics/all-topics/92825
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Recoding a Nominal Variable as Ordinal ... [Fall 2001 class please note: This student was using SPSS in the syntax mode. Although you would use the menu commands to recode the variable, the logic is the same.] ... You will want to create a new variable, let's call it KILLEM, from V961197. Consider the logic of this...
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www.janda.org/c10/Research%20papers/ordinalrecode.htm
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