nominal scale

British

noun

statistics a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results Compare ordinal scale interval scale ratio scale

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Like the nominal scale data, ordinal scale data cannot be used in calculations.

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Smartphone companies are another example of nominal scale data.

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Data that is measured using an ordinal scale is similar to nominal scale data but there is a big difference.

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And not to deliberately make you happy, which it will, I am jealous albeit on a nominal scale as anchored as I am in reason.

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