A test is made of the hypothesis that little error is introduced into multivariate analysis by the assignment of a linear metric to ordinal data. It is shown that ...

Ordinal variables—categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them—are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of ...

Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...