nominal variable

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- 1.1 Noun

English [edit]

Noun [edit]

nominal variable (plural nominal variables)

(statistics, metrics) A variable with values which have no numerical value, such as gender or occupation.

Examples
Types of leaf arrangement opposite, alternate, whorled States of matter solid, liquid, gas, plasma

Synonyms [edit]

categorical variable

Coordinate terms [edit]

ordinal variable, cardinal variable, interval variable, ratio variable

See also [edit]

Levels of measurement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Levels of measurement
dummy variable
MECE
nominal scale

Translations [edit]

nominal variable

Czech: nominální proměnná (cs) f

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