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The Freedictionary give the definition of nominal scale as "statistics a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results." - It is the lowest measurement that researchers can use. -place data into categories with no order or structure. -YES/NO scale.( no order & distance between Yes/No ) statistics: The statistics which can be used with nominal scales are in the non-parametric group: -mode -crosstabulation -chi-square | |||||