VARIABLES

Variables that represent categories that cannot be ordered in any particular way.

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

Special kind of independent variables that are measured in a study because they potentially influence the dependent variable

• CONTROL

• CONFOUNDING

• INDEPENDENT

• DEPENDENT

Variables that have values that lie along an evenly dispersed range of numbers when there is an absolute zero, as opposed to net worth, which can have a negative debt-to-income ratio-level variable

• NOMINAL

• ORDINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

Kind of variable that are not actually measured or observed in a study. They exist but their influence cannot be directly detected in a study.

• INDEPENDENT

• DEPENDENT

• CONFOUNDING

• CONTROL

It “stands between” the independent and dependent variables, and they show the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable.

• CONTROL

• INTERVENING

• DEPENDENT

• INDEPENDENT

Military Title

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

TEMPERATURE

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

WEIGHT IN KILOGRAMS

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

TYPE OF MUSIC

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• ORDINAL

• NOMINAL

• INTERVAL

• RATIO