that there will eventuate one or another of the scales
listed in Table 1.1
The decision to discard the scale names commonly
encountered in writings on measurement is based on
the ambiguity of such terms as "intensive" and "extensive."
Both ordinal and interval scales have at
Thus, the case that stands at the median (mid-point)'
of a distribution maintains its position under all transformations
which preserve order (isotonic group), but
an item located at the mean remains at the mean only
under transformations as restricted as those of the
linear group. The ratio expressed by the coefficient