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Hi All,
I am kind of confused about whether mean and sd can/are used as measures of center, spread respectively when dealing with Ordinal variables.
On one hand, this choice does not seem to reasonably support the interpretation. It seems that median and mode .OTOH, I have seen it used in some papers, although I am not sure how reputable are the journals where these papers were published. EDIT: Are Mode and Median the standard measures of center and spread for Ordinal Categorical variables?
I am kind of confused about whether mean and sd can/are used as measures of center, spread respectively when dealing with Ordinal variables.
On one hand, this choice does not seem to reasonably support the interpretation. It seems that median and mode .OTOH, I have seen it used in some papers, although I am not sure how reputable are the journals where these papers were published. EDIT: Are Mode and Median the standard measures of center and spread for Ordinal Categorical variables?