what measurement is most appropriate for data regarding customer drive-thru times? nominal, ordinal, ratio or interval? Please explain which is correct and why. Can you specify what an absolute zero in this case would mean and if it actually exists in real life for this example?
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I am using the 5th edition textbook of Elementary Statistics ISBN: 9780134686943.
The question is regarding question number 24 on page 24. It asks:
what measurement is most appropriate for data regarding customer drive-thru times? nominal, ordinal, ratio or interval?
Please explain which is correct and why. Can you specify what an absolute zero in this case would mean and if it actually exists in real life for this example?
Drive thru times are generally taken as minutes
minutes are a ratio level of measurement because it has an absolute zero value and the difference between values can be compared.
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