Nimellisasteikolla
Nimellisasteikolla is a Finnish term that translates to "nominal scale" or "nominal level of measurement" in English. It refers to the simplest level of measurement in statistics, where data is categorized into distinct groups or labels that have no inherent order or ranking. Examples of data measured on a nominal scale include gender (male, female, non-binary), eye color (blue, brown, green), or types of fruit (apple, banana, orange).
The primary characteristic of nominal data is that the categories are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. This
When analyzing nominal data, researchers often use measures of central tendency like the mode, which represents