An ordinal variable is a number that shows the position of an object within a series of objects with the use of a suffix, for example, "1st" or "453rd." When preparing a worksheet in Excel for your ...

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 52, No. 3 (March 2019), pp. 453-475 (23 pages) What would be the analogue of the Lorenzquasi-ordering when the variable of interest is continuous and of a purely ...

In this paper we propose a novel approach for measuring risks when the data available is expressed on an ordinal scale. As a result we obtain a new index of risk bounded between 0 and 1, which leads ...

1. What does it mean to say that a measure has a PRE interpretation? It means that the measure can be interpreted in a way that tells you the percentage reduction in errors you would make when ...

When you specify the MEASURES option in the TABLES statement, PROC FREQ computes several statistics that describe the association between the two variables of the contingency table. The following are ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a simple technique he has used with good success, previously unpublished and without a standard name. The goal of an ordinal classification problem ...

Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...