You are conducting a study on the effectiveness of a new drug. Patients rate their pain levels before and after the treatment on a scale of 1-10. What type of data are these ratings?
- Continuous data
- Nominal data
- Ordinal data
- Ratio data
Patients' pain levels are ordinal data as they're categorized into an order (1-10) but the intervals between the levels might not be equivalent.
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