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A nominal variable, or nominal group, is a group of objects or ideas collectively grouped by a particular qualitative characteristic. [3] Nominal variables do not have a natural order, which means that statistical analyses of these variables will always produce the same results, regardless of the order in which the data is presented. [1] [3]
The nominal interest rate, also known as an annual percentage rate or APR, is the periodic interest rate multiplied by the number of periods per year. For example, a nominal annual interest rate of 12% based on monthly compounding means a 1% interest rate per month (compounded). [2]
In the example below, 'son' and 'good' agree in nominative case because they are the subject of the sentence and at the same time they agree in gender because the ending is masculine. Likewise, 'the dog' and 'wild' share the same morphemes that show they agree in accusative case and masculine gender.
Real values can for example be expressed in constant 1992 dollars, with the price level fixed 100 at the base date. Comparison of real and nominal gas prices 1996 to 2016, illustrating the formula for conversion. Here the base year is 2016.
While Stevens's typology is widely adopted, it is still being challenged by other theoreticians, particularly in the cases of the nominal and ordinal types (Michell, 1986). [16] Duncan (1986), for example, objected to the use of the word measurement in relation to the nominal type and Luce (1997) disagreed with Stevens's definition of measurement.
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun. [1] Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically , and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type.
Nominal techniques, computer science techniques for working with formal languages with name binding constructs Real versus nominal value , an accepted condition which is a goal or an approximation as opposed to the real value
In linguistics, a nominal sentence (also known as equational sentence) [1] is a sentence without a finite verb. [2] As a nominal sentence does not have a verbal predicate , it may contain a nominal predicate, an adjectival predicate, in Semitic languages also an adverbial predicate or even a prepositional predicate.