• Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables. Psychologist...
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    sciences, measurements can have multiple levels, which would include nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales. Measurement is a cornerstone of trade,...
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    and gives many examples of its use. The five response categories are often believed to represent an interval level of measurement. But this can only be...
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  • Horizontal plane parallel Level (video games), a stage of the game Level (role-playing games), a measurement of character development Level (music), similar to...
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    on the topic of: Sea level variations Vital signs / Sea level Sea level change / Observations from space (links to multiple measurements) Fourth National...
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  • a river or a lake). The level measurement can be either continuous or point values. Continuous level sensors measure level within a specified range and...
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  • historic measurement periods. Climate change and other forces can cause sea levels and elevations to vary over time. Elevation or altitude above sea level is...
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  • A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating...
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    A sound level meter (also called sound pressure level meter (SPL)) is used for acoustic measurements. It is commonly a hand-held instrument with a microphone...
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    Technology Body of Knowledge (2nd Quarter 2017 ed.). doi:10.22224/gistbok/2017.2.3. Chrisman, Nicholas R. (1998). "Rethinking Levels of Measurement for Cartography"...
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    altitude of an object above a fixed level. The measurement of altitude is called altimetry, which is related to the term bathymetry, the measurement of depth...
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  • (nominal or ordinal in level of measurement), a contingency table can be used to view the data, and a measure of association or a test of independence could...
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  • approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the weight of air above the measurement point. As elevation increases, there is less overlying atmospheric...
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    dichotomous data may only exist at first two levels of measurement, namely at the nominal level of measurement (such as "British" vs "American" when measuring...
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    effect of navigation satellite geometry on positional measurement precision. The concept of dilution of precision (DOP) originated with users of the Loran-C...
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  • measurement error) is the difference between a measured value of a quantity and its unknown true value. Such errors are inherent in the measurement process;...
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  • have a rank (ordinal level of measurement), then that information is not fully considered in the measurements. Later extensions of the approach included...
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  • fall under the same level of measurement (a ratio scale). Various attempts have been made to produce a taxonomy of levels of measurement. The psychophysicist...
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  • frequently divided into two parts, the 'homophobic levels of attitude' (first four terms) and the 'positive levels of attitude' (last four terms). Repulsion: Homosexuality...
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  • of levels of measurement, such ratios only make sense for ratio measurements (where ratios of measurements are meaningful), not interval measurements...
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    Questionnaire (category Types of polling)
    survey question and its scale is crucial, since they affect the level of measurement error. Further, if the questionnaires are not collected using sound...
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    Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology...
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  • non-dichotomous variables and the ones with a higher level of measurement. (See also domain of discourse.) Semantically, greater precision can be obtained...
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  • any data, can be collected and measured using different levels of measurement. Those levels include dichotomous (a person either has a personality trait...
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  • Ratio Institute, a Swedish institute Ratio scale, a statistical level of measurement Ratio, a 2009 book on cooking by Michael Ruhlman 'Ratio' as a term...
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  • Measurement invariance or measurement equivalence is a statistical property of measurement that indicates that the same construct is being measured across...
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    following table compares the two types of utility functions common in economics: Expected utility theory Level of measurement Marginal utility Multi-attribute...
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    Temperature measurement (also known as thermometry) describes the process of measuring a current temperature for immediate or later evaluation. Datasets...
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  • another composite measure, that of an index. Those concepts are however different. What level (level of measurement) of data is involved (nominal, ordinal...
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    originally intended only for the measurement of low-level sounds (around 40 phon), is now commonly used for the measurement of environmental noise and industrial...
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