On a theory of scale types (Q1092541)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4020181
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On a theory of scale types (English)
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1987
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A scale is regular if there is a permissible transformation by which any scale can be transformed into any other, for a given measurement system. The system is called regular if all the corresponding scales are regular. The main theorem leads to a characterization of scale types. If the lowest possible scale type corresponds to the group of bijective functions, it follows that for ordered sets only four scale types are possible: ordinal, interval, ratio, and absolute.
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regular scales
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permissible transformation
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measurement system
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characterization of scale types
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bijective functions
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ordinal
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interval
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ratio
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absolute
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