An ordinal variable is a number that shows the position of an object within a series of objects with the use of a suffix, for example, "1st" or "453rd." When preparing a worksheet in Excel for ...

Ordinals numbers tell you what position something is in. You often use them to rank or order things. Most ordinal numbers end with a 'th' sound, like 'fourth' or 'fifth'. However, they can also ...

What we cannot say is that a “4” is twice as good as a “2” as this is simply a rank assignment of numbers which lacks mathematical precision. Other examples of ordinal data include stages ...