Ordinal
With ordinal scales, it is the order of the values is what’s important and significant, but the differences between each one is not really known.
With ordinal scales, it is the order of the values is what’s important and significant, but the differences between each one is not really known.
Ordinal
scales are typically measures of non-numeric concepts like satisfaction,
happiness, discomfort, etc.
“Ordinal”
is easy to remember because is sounds like “order” and that’s the key to
remember with “ordinal scales”–it is the order that matters, but that’s all you really get from
these.
The
best way to determine ordinal data is to use the mode or median; the mean
cannot be defined from an ordinal set.
How
do you feel today? How satisfied are you with your service?
1-Very
Unhappy 1-Very Unsatisfied
2-Unhappy
2-Somewhat Unsatisfied
3-Ok
3-Neutral
4-Happy
4-Somewhat Satisfied
5-
Very Happy 5-Very Satisfied
Suppose A has to make payment
to B on installment basis a sum of Rs 90000 .Each installment period has a gap
of 2 months to be paid in 3 installments.
1/10/2013-30000
1/12/2013-30000
1/2/2014-30000
As u can see from the example
above there is specific order is involved as far as the date is concerned
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