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Ordinal Scale

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-019753

Measurement scale consisting of qualitative categories whose values have a distinct order but no numerical distance between their possible values (e.g., stage of cancer, I, II, III, or IV).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-019753
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesCDC Glossary: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice at https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/SS1978.pdf
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-019753",
  "term": "Ordinal Scale",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Measurement scale consisting of qualitative categories whose values have a distinct order but no numerical distance between their possible values (e.g., stage of cancer, I, II, III, or IV).",
  "references": [
    "CDC Glossary: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice at https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/SS1978.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/ordinal-scale/"
}

Record 19,753 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.