Scale of Measurements

Descriptive data does NOT involve the following process

• Organizing your data

• Displaying your data using graphs

• Describing your data using tables

• Making hypothesis

Which of the following is regarded as categorical data?

• Height

• Weight

• Temperature

• Level of education

what is the scale of measurement for "marital status"?

• Ordinal

• Nominal

• Numerical

• Ratio

What is the scale of measurement for "SPEED (km/hr)"

• Ordinal

• Discrete

• Nominal

• Ratio

What is the scale of measurement based on the example ?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Ratio

• Interval

Statistical techniques that summarizes and organize the data are classified as:

• Population statistics

• Sample statistics

• Inferential statistics

• Descriptive statistics

Five point Likert scales (strongly agree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) are frequently used to measure attitudes. A Likert scale is:

• Discrete variable

• Ordinal variable

• Continous Variable

• All of the above options

A researcher studies the factors that determine the number of children future couples decide to have . The variable "number of children" is a:

• Discrete variable

• Ordinal variable

• Continous variable

• Categorical variable

A teacher asks students to identify their favourite reality television show. What type of measurement scale do the different television shows make up?

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

A researcher is curious to know the IQ scores of students in UiTM. The entire students in UiTM is an example of a:

• Parameter

• Statistic

• Population

• Sample