Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:06:09 -0400
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From: Mark A Davenport MADAVENP <M_Davenport@uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: SPSS 12.0 Statistical Procedures Companion Book
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I don't have access to this book (to be honest, I don't recognize the
title and I have been collecting her stuff for years) but I agree that,
the way you describe them, these are ordinal. That is, anything that
approaches 'ranking' is, at the very least, ordinal. In a true nominal
scale, you can switch around the values however you want and not mess up
the scale. Values merely reflect uniqueness, not rank. I don't see how
'how often do you read the newspaper?' can be nominal.
Mark
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Omar Farook <omarfdawood@yahoo.com>
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Dear Experts.
Under the title ?Measures of Association for Nominal Variables? page
175, Mr. Norusis used two variables Highest degree and How often do you
read a newspaper?.
I am confused, I think that the two variables are ordinal and the title
talking about nominal.
Please help.
Thanks.
Omar.
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