On a theory of scale types

DOI10.1007/BF02613144MaRDI QIDQ1092541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1987

Published in Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/176114

zbMATH Keywords

absolutebijective functionscharacterization of scale typesintervalmeasurement systemordinalpermissible transformationratioregular scales

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Total orders (06A05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

Review text

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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