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Ordinal data are:
A. sorted into categories according to specified characteristics
B. ordered or ranked according to some relationship to one another
C. ordered, have a specified measure of a distance between observations but have no nature zero
D. data which have a natural zero

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Option A is true in case of nominal data.

In case of ordinal data, there is no fixed ...

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