[seek-kr] RE: Please tear this apart...

[Shawn Bowers]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Rich Williams wrote:

> 
> > It looks like you included RatioMeasurement as an IntervalMeasurement. It
> > seems like it should have a property that further defines its units... or
> > that it is created from two measurements?  How would Proportions and
> > Densities/Concentrations be represented?
> >
> 
> Your confusion is due to some confusing terminology.  RatioMeasurement is
> 'ratio' in the sense of nominal-ordinal-interval-ratio used by statisticians
> and described I believe in the eml-attribute documentation.  It does not
> mean that the measurement is a ratio of two quantities (though it could be).
> Ratio in that sense, as well as densities, concentrations etc would all be
> represented using the Dimension, which is defined in the Unit (note that
> IntervalMeasurement has a Unit property that is inherited by the
> RatioMeasurement class).
> 

I see now...  I mistook Ratio for a "complex" measurement as opposed to a 
scale. 

Thanks,
Shawn