Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Typologies Are Misleading
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by JSTOR in The American Statistician
- Vol. 47 (1) , 65-72
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2684788
Abstract
The psychophysicist S. S. Stevens developed a measurement scale typology that has dominated social statistics methodology for almost 50 years. During this period, it has generated considerable controversy among statisticians. Recently, there has been a renaissance in the use of Stevens's scale typology for guiding the design of statistical computer packages. The current use of Stevens's terminology fails to deal with the classical criticisms at the time it was proposed and ignores important developments in data analysis over the last several decades.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Analysis of Proximities: Multidimensional Scaling with an Unknown Distance Function. I.Psychometrika, 1962
- On the Statistical Treatment of Football Numbers.American Psychologist, 1953