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Four Levels (Scales) of Data Measurement

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinion. Grace Hopper (1906–1992) Navy Rear Admiral, computer pioneer, coined the term “computer bug”

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Beatty, W. (2018). Four Levels (Scales) of Data Measurement. In: Decision Support Using Nonparametric Statistics. SpringerBriefs in Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68264-8_4

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