Level of Measurement
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods
Level of Measurement
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950589.n486
Subject: Research Methods
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The level of measurement defines the relation among the values assigned to the ATTRIBUTES of a VARIABLE. Social science researchers conventionally use four such levels: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. For defining these four types of measurement, an increasing number of ...
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