dc:modified dc:created dc:title dc:description dc:identifier dc:URI notes dc:issued dc:source 2011-11-28T16:16:17+00:00 2011-11-28T16:16:17+00:00 nominal http://vocabularies.gbif.org/measurementLevel/nominal nominal node/163820 1945-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 doi:doi:10.1126/science.103.2684.677 2011-11-28T16:18:27+00:00 2011-11-28T16:18:27+00:00 ordinal http://vocabularies.gbif.org/measurementLevel/ordinal ordinal node/163823 1945-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 doi:doi:10.1126/science.103.2684.677 2011-11-28T16:19:33+00:00 2011-11-28T16:19:33+00:00 interval http://vocabularies.gbif.org/measurementLevel/interval interval node/163825
A highly familiar example of interval scale measurement is temperature with the Celsius scale.
1945-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 doi:doi:10.1126/science.103.2684.677 2011-11-28T16:23:59+00:00 2011-11-28T16:23:59+00:00 ratio http://vocabularies.gbif.org/measurementLevel/ratio ratio node/163827For example, the Kelvin temperature scale has a non-arbitrary zero point of absolute zero, which is denoted 0K and is equal to -273.15 degrees Celsius. This zero point is non arbitrary as the particles that compose matter at this temperature have zero kinetic energy.
1945-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 doi:doi:10.1126/science.103.2684.677