The phrase "a nominal scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in statistics and research to refer to a type of measurement scale that categorizes data without a specific order.
Example: "In our study, we used a nominal scale to classify participants based on their favorite color."
Alternatives: "a categorical scale" or "a qualitative scale".
When numbers are used merely to identify individuals or classes (as on the backs of athletes on a football team), they constitute a nominal scale.
Sex was available as male and female and was measured on a nominal scale.
Accompanied with a nominal scale, tieness also provides better results when compared to the existing metrics.
We define a nominal scale to tieness by comparing the modified neighborhood overlap and co-authorship frequency.
Having studied such distributions, we may now consider the values of quartiles to define a nominal scale.
Thus, the definition of a nominal scale is necessary to identify when a tie is weak or strong.
Students' entrepreneurial intention was also assessed with a dichotomous nominal scale (1 = Yes and 2 = No).
Of the 47 questions, 43 questions utilised a 7 category nominal scale (Table 2), one question utilised an alternate 7 category nominal scale, two questions utilised a 4 category nominal scale, and one question utilised a dichotomous yes/no scale.
Twenty-two items could be answered with "na", which makes the scale of these items a multi-categorical nominal scale.
Employment status was measured on a four-point nominal scale as 'gainfully employed' (including students), 'unemployed', 'on sick leave or disability pension', or 'old age retirement'.
Occupational status was measured on a four-point nominal scale as 'gainfully employed' (including students), 'unemployed', 'on sick leave or disability pension' or 'old age retirement'.
