Data was collected in the same year to determine whether the occurrences of cycl

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Data was collected in the same year to determine whether the occurrences of cyclones differed by latitude and season around Antarctica. Classify each of the 3 variables as either nominal, rank, interval or ratio variables. Justify your answers. Data was collected in the same year to determine whether the occurrences of cyclones differed by latitude and season around Antarctica. Classify each of the 3 variables as either nominal, rank, interval or ratio variables. Justify your answers. Classify each of the 3 variables as either nominal, rank, interval or ratio variables. Justify your answers.

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occurrences of cyclones differed by lattitude -ratio

occurrences of cyclones differed by season - nominal

Season can be only nominal as we cannot take any kind of ratios in the data

For example we cannot say that occurrences of cyclone in winter is 3 times that in summer , this is because winter and summer cannot be compared and hence it is a nominal vriable

On the other hand when we take lattitude into consideration

Occurrences of cyclone around antartica by lattitude can be compared with number of times in other lattitude

For example cyclone around equator can be compared to cyclone in antartica as the values will be a multiple because of magnetic effects of Earth at polar caps will be a multiple of that in equator

Hence occurrences of cyclones differed by lattitude is a ratio variable

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