interval variable

English

Noun

interval variable (plural interval variables)Category:English lemmas#INTERVALVARIABLECategory:English nouns#INTERVALVARIABLECategory:English countable nouns#INTERVALVARIABLECategory:English multiword terms#INTERVALVARIABLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INTERVALVARIABLECategory:Pages with entries#INTERVAL%20VARIABLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#INTERVAL%20VARIABLE

  1. (statisticsCategory:en:Statistics#INTERVALVARIABLE) An ordinal variable with the additional property that the magnitudes of the differences between two values are meaningful.
Examples

Absolute time:
10PM (today) > 8PM (today)
10PM (today) - 8PM (today) = 2 hours
8PM (today) + 2 hours = 10pm (today)
2PM + 10PM - not defined
10PM / 8PM - not defined
10PM * 8PM - not defined
10PM * 2 hours - not defined

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Category:English countable nouns Category:English lemmas Category:English multiword terms Category:English nouns Category:Entries with translation boxes Category:Pages with 1 entry Category:Pages with entries Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations Category:Terms with Czech translations Category:Terms with Finnish translations Category:Terms with Romanian translations Category:en:Statistics