______ Data Are Arbitrarily Assigned a Number to Represent Each

question 78

Multiple Choice

______ data are arbitrarily assigned a number to represent each variable, but ______ data are assigned numbers that are no longer arbitrary and have some sort of quantitative meaning.

• A) Ordinal; nominal
• B) Nominal; ordinal
• C) Nominal; interval
• D) Interval; nominal

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Definitions:

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