Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29620 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. 62/2004
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnburg, Lehrstuhl für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Velleman & Wilkinson (1993) give a lot of examples to show that the hierarchy of scalers introduced by Stevens is misleading. We will show that these examples gain are misleading if we accept that most real data sets stem come derived measurement. For derived measurement the absolute scale is very important. Count data, ranks, percent data, standardized variables all have an absolute scale.
Subjects: 
Scale type
permissible transformations
data transformation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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