Date:         Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:12:28 +0100
Reply-To:     "adel F." <adel_tangi@YAHOO.FR>
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From:         "adel F." <adel_tangi@YAHOO.FR>
Subject:      Re: Nominal to ordinal
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Thanks Stéphane,
  This is exactly what I was looking for.
  Sorry for the confusion for all other persons who kindly reply to my question
  Cheers
  Adel

  Stéphane Colas <saslist@DATAMETRIC.FR> a écrit :
  INPUT() sorry, to convert from text to num.

Stéphane.

Selon "adel F." :

> I want to have the variable in best12. type and not in a text.
>
> I want to compute correlation between this variable and an other one, when
> it is as a text, I can not have the correlation
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Flom a écrit :
> >>> "adel F." 2/14/2006 6:30 am >>> wrote
> <<<
> I do not remember how to transform a variable with values 0,1,2,3 coded in a
> nominal scale, to an ordinal scale .
> >>>
>
> As others have pointed out, you can't transform a nominal scale to an ordinal
> one. OTOH, if the responses are already numbers, then it is already not only
> coded as ordinal, but as ratio, it's a question of what to do with the values
> once you've got them.
>
> So, why don't you tell us what you're trying to do? Then maybe we can help
> you try to do it. What are these values?
>
>
> Peter
>
> Peter L. Flom, PhD
> Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
> Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
> National Development and Research Institutes
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