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Continuous data
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Ordinal data
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Ordinal data that can be treated as if it were continuous
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Nominal data |
Correct.
Heart failure can be divided into stages of increasing severity.
Like the stages of cancer there are only a limited number of stages
and the distance between stages may not be the same. Thus stages
of heart failure like stages of cancer can be considered ordinal
data.
