A nominal scale of measurement must use _____ statistics because the numbers have no numerical value
a. nonparametric c. parametric
b. graphic d. inferential
A
Nonparametric statistics are those that do not depend on the numerical value of numbers. Nominal scales use numbers merely to identify categories, and are, therefore, nonnumeric.
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