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(statistics) A method of measuring quantifiable data that assumes an exact knowledge of the quantitative difference between the objects being scaled. Also known as cardinal measurement.
Measurements based on placing variables in rank order with the distances between categories fixed and equal. Interval measurements are artificial, and the zero point is arbitrarily determined; negative values may represent real values. The Celsius temperature scale is an example of an interval measurement.
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