Setting Variables with Levels of Measurement: Discover Statistics with JASP for Beginners (3 of 6)

Each variable in JASP is assigned a level of measurement (nominal, nominal text, ordinal, or scale). We learn how to change or set those levels and how to set and adjust value levels for categorical variables. I cover whether we have to set levels and how setting levels benefits us. This is the third in a series introducing statistics students to exploring statistics with JASP.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Open a JASP dataset from the Data Library (debug)
1:30 Categorical variables – nominal, nominal text, and ordinal
4:00 Setting value labels for categorical variables.
5:16 Reorder value labels
6:50 Changing levels of measurement
9:35 Do I have to set levels?
10:10 Reasons why you should set levels

Download the Friendly, Free, Flexible, Functional JASP software from the official JASP statistics website: https://jasp-stats.org

Music
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This video uses the dataset debug and JASP version .0.13.0

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