Ordinalasteikkoon
Ordinalasteikkoon is a Finnish term that translates to "ordinal scale" or "ordinal scale of measurement." It refers to a level of measurement in statistics where data can be ranked or ordered, but the differences between the ranks are not necessarily equal or quantifiable. This means that while we know if one observation is greater than another, we cannot say by how much.
In an ordinal scale, categories have a meaningful order. For example, survey responses like "poor," "fair," "good,"
Statistical analysis methods suitable for ordinal data include non-parametric tests such as the Mann-Whitney U test,