JUSTINE C.

MAGLANOC
8/19/21
ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS
Four hierarchical levels of measurements
Nominal
-It is used for labeling variables, the “nominal” scales could also be called as “labels”, but
without any quantitative values. But for us to easily remember what “nominal” is, it is sounds
like “name” and nominal scales are kind of labels or “names”.
-Variables can be assigned as categorical

Examples

Gender Types of Electrical Consumption

1. Male 1. Residential
2.Female 2. Commercial
3. Industrial
4. Government

Ordinal
-From the word itself “order”, so basically it is the order of the values of which is significant.
With that, we could say that ordinal depicts ranking, arrangement, or “order”.
-Variables can be assigned as categorical.

Examples

Competition placement Level of Satisfaction

1 – Champion 1. Very satisfied
2 - 1st Runner-up 2. Satisfied
3 - 2nd Runner-up 3. Unsatisfied
4 - 3rd Runner-up 4. Very Unsatisfied

INTERVAL
-It is like ordinal scale, but the only difference is that in interval scale has also the exact
differences between the given values. For us to easily remember what interval scale is, the
“interval” itself means “space in between” it is the important thing to remember that interval

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 JUSTINE C. MAGLANOC
8/19/21
ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS
scales not only tell us the order but also the exact value between each item. With that, we
could say that interval scales reveal more information than the ordinal scale.
-Variables can be assigned as numerical.

Examples

Temperature

80 °C degree

45 °C degree

25 °C degree

-10 °C degree

RATIO
-It also reveals the order, the exact value between units and have an absolute zero which allows
for a wide range of both descriptive and inferential statistics or inductive statistics to be
applied. Height and weight are good examples of ratio variables.
-Variables can be assigned as numerical.

Examples

Mass

80 kg

40 kg

10 kg

0 kg

MEASUREMENT SCALES
MEASUREMENT NAMED ORDER DIFFERENCE TRUE ZERO
OF LEVEL
NOMINAL
ORDINAL
INTERVAL
RATIO

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