{"id":12922,"date":"2011-11-05T06:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/ordinal-variable"},"modified":"2011-11-07T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:20:30","slug":"ordinal-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/ordinal-variable","title":{"rendered":"Ordinal variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A factor which consists of a set of predefined values that are ranked in a specific order. An ordinal variable can be seen as a special case of a categorical variable. If the values of an ordinal factor need to be scaled, the inherent order must be preserved (Cook et al 1993). [Cook W, Kress M and Seil ord L (1993), &#8216;On the use of ordinal data in data envelopment analysis&#8217;, J. of the Opi. Res. Soc., 44, pp 133-140.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A factor which consists of a set of predefined values that are ranked in a specific order. An ordinal variable can be seen as a special case of a categorical variable. If the values of an ordinal factor need to be scaled, the inherent order must be preserved (Cook et al 1993). [Cook W, Kress &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/ordinal-variable\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13665,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/13665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deazone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}