Business Statistics

Scale of Measurement

Scale of Measurement

Scale of Measurement refers to the relationship among the values that are assigned to the attributes for a variable. It deals with variables that are non-numeric or where the numbers have no value. scale of measurement looks at variables where the order matters but the differences do not matter. There are four major scales or types of measurement of variables: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. The scale of measurement depends on the variable itself.