Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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U. S. businesses are listed by size small medium, and large. Explain why business size is an example of an ordinal-scaled variable.
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