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Mon 12 Sep, 2011 12:06 am
I missed my first week and a half of classes due to traveling difficulties so I'm really behind in my class. Can anyone answer these for me? You'd be a life savor!
The possible answers for all of the following would be:
(A) Nominal
(B) Ordinal
(C) Scale
(D) Can’t classify as any of nominal, ordinal or scale
Question #5.
What is the level of measurement of the variable coded as follows?
Variable name: DRINK
Question asked: How many drinks of alcohol did you consume on the last occasion in which you drank alcohol?
Coding:
• 0- never had an alcoholic drink
• 1- between 1 to 3 drinks
• 2 – between 4 to 6
• 3 – more than 6 drinks
Question #6.
What is the level of measurement of the variable coded as follows?
Variable name: DRINK
Question asked: How many drinks of alcohol did you consume on the last occasion in which you drank alcohol?
Coding:
• 0- never had an alcoholic drink
• 1- drank 1 drink
• 2 – drank 2 drinks
• 3 – 3, 4 – 4, 5 -5 and so on.
Question #7.
What is the level of measurement of the variable coded as follows?
Variable name: DRINK
Question asked: How many drinks of alcohol did you consume on the last occasion in which you drank alcohol?
Coding:
• 0- never had an alcoholic drink
• 1- drank 1 drink
• 2 – drank 2 drinks
• 3 – 3
• 4 – 4
• 5 – drank 5 drinks or more
Also, I realize that I haven't shown any effort here but I've only had one class session since I was so late to start and we didn't talk about this at all. I don't even have my textbook yet. I've been trying to use wikipedia but I got stuck here.