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Types Of Data and Scales of Measurement

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This is a short chapter, dealing with quite a philosophical topic. Remember the data on house prices? You collected three pieces of data for each house. Remind yourself what they were:

  1. Item 1

    … which was in units of…

  2. Item 2

    … which was in units of…

  3. Item 3

    … which was in units of…

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Boyle, C. (1986). Types Of Data and Scales of Measurement. In: Mastering Statistics with your Microcomputer. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18211-4_4

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