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- Title
Un indicator informațional pentru variabilele categoriale ale unei anchete. Notă de cercetare.
- Authors
Sticlaru, Gabriel
- Abstract
The statistical procedures used for data processing have to be considerate depending on measurement variables level: nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio type. Here are presented some examples for ordinal variables, where calculated mean is misleading and gives a wrong interpretation. For the categorical variables, we propose an indicator resulted from the informational entropy, as a measure of the responses distribution in a survey. Calculations are made for a Likert scale, survey data from 1991 to 2010. The indicator allows us to make a global characterization of the distributions, items ranking, dynamic comparisons and patterns identification
- Publication
Romanian Sociology / Sociologie Româneascâ, 2016, Vol 14, Issue 2/3, p73
- ISSN
1220-5389
- Publication type
Article