Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cardinal variable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: car-di-nal -vari-able
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A variable whose values are ordered, that can be multiplied by a scalar, and for which the magnitude of differences in values is meaningful.

Example Sentences

"In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility (intensity of preference) as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable."
"The least squares estimation treats happiness as a cardinal variable."
"Life Satisfaction was handled as a cardinal variable, with values between one and seven, where one was assigned to the lowest level of satisfaction"

Inflected Forms

cardinal variables (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

nominal variable ordinal variable

Questions

What does cardinal variable mean?: A variable whose values are ordered, that can be multiplied by a scalar, and for which the magnitude of differences in values is meaningful.

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