Organic Farming Proposal
Organic Farming Proposal Michael Lewis Part I Measurement Types There are 4 major measurement types used in statistical data. First, Nominal data is a set of data that can be categorized into set groups. An example of this would be election results falling into categories of republican, democrat, or independent. Figure 1 is the electoral map from the 2000 presidential election. Each state falls into a category of red for republican and blue for democrat in a true nominal way. This style and example are popular in the media today for its level of simplicity and how it doesn’t require much to understand what is being displayed. Figure 1: 2000 Presidential Election Secondly, Ordinal data is data that is ordered into some sort of rank based on any number of qualities. This could be data as a part of the world’s happiest countries. Figure 2 displays how data can be ordered with a ranking. This particular example of the happiest countries visu...