A question concerning business statistics...?

Question

I'm working on some business statistics for my class, and I have a horrible teacher. Can anyone tell me this: is a military rank considered nominal data?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes, it can be "Norminal data". Depending on your objective of the Statistics ... I would recomend an "Ordinal Measurment" instead.

Noriminal - The name of the most similar named exemplar or definition in the set is the "value" assigned by nominal measurement to the given instance. If two instances have the same name associated with them, they belong to the same category, and that is the only significance that nominal measurements have. For practical data processing the names may be numerals, but in that case the numerical value of these numerals is irrelevant. The only comparisons that can be made between variable values are equality and inequality. There are no "less than" or "greater than" relations among the classifying names, nor operations such as addition or subtraction.

Ordinal measurment system - In this classification, the numbers assigned to objects represent the rank order (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.) of the entities measured. The numbers are called ordinals. The variables are called ordinal variables or rank variables. Comparisons of greater and less can be made, in addition to equality and inequality. However operations such as conventional addition and subtraction are still meaningless. Examples include the Mohs scale of mineral hardness; the results of a horse race, which say only which horses arrived first, second, third, etc. but no time intervals.

Answer 2

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