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THE ASSIGNMENT OF NUMBERS TO RANK ORDER CATEGORIES.

By both random and nonrandom assignments of numbers to rank orders (which are consistent with the monotonic nature of the categories), it is shown that ordinal variables can be treated as if they conform to interval scales. The scoring systems, of which 18 were randomly generated by a computer, resu...

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Published in:American Sociological Review Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 515 - 525
Main Author: Labovitz, Sanford
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Jun70
Subjects:
Regression analysis
Statistical correlation
Variances
Analysis of covariance
Statistical sampling
Least squares
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