ordinal variable

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ordinal
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.dɪ.nəl/us
/ˈɔːr.dən.əl/
a number such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, that shows the position of something in a list ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us
/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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A simpleordinalvariablereflecting the tendency for government satisfaction to decline and then rise again between elections.
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Religious belief was also entered as a categorical rather thanordinalvariable; those who agree with statements on biblical literalism served as the reference group.
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Second, this paper reports the first application of a recently developed structural model for genotyperenvironment interaction to anordinalvariablemodeled as a multiple-threshold trait rather than continuous dependent variable.
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A variable the data on which are ordinal is known as anordinalvariable.
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In this regard, combining developmental profile analysis with methods that can capture content-specific changes in categorical or ordinal variables may be important.
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The visually assessed cover of a plant species is then recorded as a continuous variable between 0 and 1, or divided into interval classes as anordinalvariable.
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The chi-squared statistic was used to examine the association between the type of setting and other nominal and ordinal variables.
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The linear trend test was used for ordinal variables.
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Categorical and ordinal variables were transformed into dummies.
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Wilcoxon's rank-sum test was applied to other continuous and ordinal variables.
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Models were fit to correlation matrices, rather than to covariance matrices, because the variables were ordinal, and it is assumed that ordinal variables have variance = 1.0.
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For ordinal variables with more than two values, there are the ordered logit and ordered probit models.
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They may be continuous or discrete ordinal variables like counts.
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In regression analysis, outcomes (dependent variables) that are ordinal variables can be predicted using a variant of ordinal regression, such as ordered logit or ordered probit.
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