1. Indicate the level of measurement for each of the following:
a) State of residence
b) Number of new daily COVID cases in a county
c) DEFCON level
d) Whether state has a mandatory mask requirement for COVID
There are mainly 3 types of measurements
1 Nominal
2 Ordinal
3 Interval/Ratio
a) State of residence
Since this is a name of state The measurement is Nominal
b) Number of new daily COVID cases in a county
The number of cases is an Interval measurement. Since it is used to express a quantity
c) DEFCON level
This is Ordinal measurement as DEFCON consist of various levels as ranks
d) Whether state has a mandatory mask requirement for COVID
This is an Yes/No answer so the measurement is Nominal
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