Scales of Measurement - Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio (Part 1) - Introductory Statistics

Quantitative Specialists Опубликовано: 1 июл. 2015 г. This video reviews the scales of measurement covered in introductory statistics: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio (Part 1 of 2). Scales of Measurement Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, Ratio YouTube Channel: Subscribe today! Lifetime access to SPSS videos: Video Transcript: In this video we'll take a look at what are known as the scales of measurement. OK first of all measurement can be defined as the process of applying numbers to objects according to a set of rules. So when we measure something we apply numbers or we give numbers to something and this something is just generically an object or objects so we're assigning numbers to some thing or things and when we do that we follow some sort of rules. Now in terms of introductory statistics textbooks there are four scales of measurement nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. We'll