Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

variable intervalar

English translation:

interval variable

Added to glossary by Dr. Andrew Frankland
Mar 4, 2009 13:02
15 yrs ago
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Spanish term

variable intervalar

Spanish to English Science Computers (general) Data Mining
Context: Plantear el test de hipótesis más conveniente para analizar una hipótesis de independencia entre variables, atendiendo a la naturaleza de éstas (nominales o ***intervalares***) y sea capaz de lanzarlo en el programa SPSS

I've absolutely no idea about this one. I'm tempted by "ordinal variable" but I've never studied statistics so I've no real clue whether this is correct or not.

Thanks for your help,

Andy
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 interval variables
4 +1 quantitative variable
4 scaled/interval variable

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interval variables

Level of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Variables measured at the interval level are called "interval variables" or sometimes "scaled variables" as they have units of measurement. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement

Interval Variables
Interval variables are variables which show order but also are based on an equal interval scale. Examples: achievement, aptitude, attitude scales are ...
www.csus.edu/indiv/b/barricks/Ed Research/Instruments/tsld0...
Peer comment(s):

agree liz askew
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+1
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quantitative variable

Luck.
Peer comment(s):

agree Rocio Barrientos
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neutral liz askew : These could be either "interval/ratio" variables.
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scaled/interval variable

Not wishing to hog anybody else's points, but just in case the references help:

Curso Método de Investigación
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Clasificar los tipos de variables, y señalar distintos tipos de ellas. Señalar las características de variables intervalares, ordinales, nominales, ...
patoral.umayor.cl/defvar/defvar.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages



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= interval/scaled

1.2 Variables and Measures
So, interval and ratio variables are two kinds of quantitative variables and nominal and ordinal variables are two kinds of qualitative variables. ...
www.uth.tmc.edu/uth_orgs/educ_dev/oser/L1_2.HTM - 34k - Cached - Similar pages


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Clustering (slide from Han and Kamber)
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The definitions of distance functions are usually very different for interval-scaled, boolean, categorical, ordinal and ratio variables. ...
cassm.cms.gre.ac.uk/DMQuick/DCS2003Lect3.ppt - Similar pages
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES ON BIRTH INTERVAL ...
variables depend on two factors: their birth interval-specific effects ..... and variables representing segments of the birth interval. ...
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Class: Statistics for Linguistics Students
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11 Jan 2004 ... dependent variables: number of exclamation marks (interval) and sentence ... What is the type of dependent variable (interval, ordinal, ...
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