"nominal variable" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nominal variables [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nominal variable (plural nominal variables)
  1. (statistics, metrics) A variable with values which have no numerical value, such as gender or occupation. Categories (topical): Statistics Synonyms: categorical variable Related terms: dummy variable, MECE, nominal scale Coordinate_terms: ordinal variable, cardinal variable, interval variable, ratio variable Translations (nominal variable): nominální proměnná [feminine] (Czech), luokitteluasteikollinen muuttuja (Finnish), flokkunarbreyta [feminine] (Icelandic), variabilă nominală [feminine] (Romanian), pasapyaw na aligin (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-nominal_variable-en-noun-DYToYXJ0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

Inflected forms

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