Skalentypen und Statistik: ein Kommentar zu Velleman & Wilkinson (1993)

Ingo Klein

No 62/2004, Discussion Papers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics

Abstract: Velleman & Wilkinson (1993) give a lot of examples to show that the hierarchy of scalers introduced by Stevens is misleading. We will show that these examples gain are misleading if we accept that most real data sets stem come derived measurement. For derived measurement the absolute scale is very important. Count data, ranks, percent data, standardized variables all have an absolute scale.

Keywords: Scale type; permissible transformations; data transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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