...differences in number-naming systems. Ordinal number names are typically learned later...in the acquisition and use of ordinal numbers corresponding to linguistic differences...induce their language's set of ordinal number names by generalization based...

ordinal number A number denoting the position in a sequence, so ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’ is the start of the ordinal numbers.

ordinal numbers. See cardinal numbers & numerals (F) .

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...performances may be attributed to the ordinality assumption rather than other...misclassification error. The ordinal model was found to be more...usual multinomial model to the ordinal logistic model was shown to decrease as the number of response categories increases...WORDS: Classification ...

...a variety of these test results for these two-sample ordinal data sets. Since there is arbitrary scoring in some...Section 2, we review various two-sample procedures for ordinal data and represent them in terms of a monotone function...discussion, and proofs are in the Appendix. 2. TWO-SAMPLE ORDINAL ...

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...genes controlling ordinal traits can be treated...mapping approach. A number of statisticalmethods...QTL for binary or ordinal traits in experimental...multiple QTL for ordinal traits (Coffman...searches for the number, positions, and...interacting QTL for ordinal traits are ...

...questionnaire employing an ordinal verbal scale, such as a Likert...to be associated with the ordinal responses, such as: "Strongly...alternative view is that ordinal level data should be rescaled...be used to convert verbal ordinal scales to interval scales...successfully applied in a ...