Identifying Levels of Measurement
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What is the level of measurement for these items related to the newspaper business?
a. The number of papers sold each Sunday during 2004.
b. The departments, such as editorial, advertising, sports, etc.
c. A summary of the number of papers sold by county.
d. The number of years with the paper for each employee.
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Level of measurement (aka data types) such as ratio, nominal, ordinal for the items in the question are given and with explanation as to why they fall in these categories. 162 words.
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What is the level of measurement for these items related to the newspaper business?
a. The number of papers sold each Sunday during 2004.
This is ratio scale as zero point is fixed and ratio of scale values i.e. number of papers sold on ...
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