title: The assignment of scores procedure for ordinal categorical data.
abstract: Ordinal data are the most frequently encountered type of data in the social sciences. Many statistical methods can be used to process such data. One common method is to assign scores to the data, convert them into interval data, and further perform statistical analysis. There are several authors who have recently developed assigning score methods to assign scores to ordered categorical data. This paper proposes an approach that defines an assigning score system for an ordinal categorical variable based on underlying continuous latent distribution with interpretation by using three case study examples. The results show that the proposed score system is well for skewed ordinal categorical data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung City 407, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Han-Ching
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7991-4195
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung City 407, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Nae-Sheng
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9818-3137
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003625:Data Collection / Q000145:classification* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012067:Religion