.11 AT&T; Wi-Fi 4:02 PM * 50% Prompt 4: Levels of Measurement Identify whether t
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.11 AT&T; Wi-Fi 4:02 PM * 50% Prompt 4: Levels of Measurement Identify whether the following variables are categorical, ordinal, interval, or ration level data. Provide a rationale for each question. Questions 13-15 are worth three points each. Question 13: Participants indicated their agreement to 24 community resilience items on a scale of 1 strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) Question 14: Participants entered their age into a textbox on the online survey. Question 15: For race/ethnicity, participants selected from one of the following options: American Indian/Alaskan Native, Black/African American/Afro-Caribbean, Asian American, Hispanic Latino, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, White/Caucasian, Other).Explanation / Answer
Question 13 : ordinal variables
Ordinal variables are such variables which take values in an order , such as low ,medium, high or in a scale 1 to 5
In this example it is in scale 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 5 ( strongly agree)
Question 14: interval variable
Interval variables are continuous variables which takes values within an interval
For example age group 15-20, 20-25 etc
Question 15: categorical variables
Categorical variables as the name suggests takes value as catagories, but ot doesn't take into consideration of order or scale , it just catagorise the data into American Asian African etc
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