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The designation of an observation with a value which is merely a name or label such as, big or small. Sometimes numerical values are given to the categories, but these nominal numerical values are without reference to the ordering or distance between categories. Consequently, many statistical applications are nut valid with nominal measurements. Compare ordinal measurements.
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