Understanding Different Types of Data

What are the different types of data and why should you care? Knowing the scale of measurement for your data is an important aspect in choosing the right statistical tool and can help prevent mistakes, like taking an average of a group of zip codes or taking the ratio of two temperatures.

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Timestamps
-00:00
-0:29 - Nominal Data
-0:58 - Ordinal Data
-1:50 - Interval Data
-2:06 - Ratio Data

About the video
Measurement scale for data is not always clear cut out.

Join Jim Colton, M.S. Statistics and the Lead Statistician at Graphpad, as he takes you through this video that will give you the knowledge you need to pick the right statistical tools for measurement.

In this video you will learn:
- Nominal Scale
- Ordinal Scale
- Interval Scale
- Ratio Scale

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