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Nominal measure
Nominal measure refers to a variable whose attributes have only the characteristics of exhaustiveness and mutual exclusiveness. In other words, a level of measurement describing a variable that has attributes that are merely different, as distinguished from ordinal, interval, or ratio measures. An example of Nominal measure would be Gender .
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