Ordinal scale

Ordinal scale

An ordinal scale defines a total preorder of objects; the scale values themselves have a total order; names may be used like "bad", "medium", "good"; if numbers are used they are only relevant up to strictly monotonically increasing transformations (order isomorphism).

ee also

*Level of measurement
*Strict weak ordering


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