Definition:Nominal Data
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Definition
Nominal data are Data which have no intrinsic ordering but merely assign units to categories.
Examples
Marital Status
An example of nominal data is the marital status of adults in a particular town: whether single, married, widowed or divorced.
Also see
- Results about nominal data can be found here.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): data (singular datum)