The Assignment of Scores Procedure for Ordinal Categorical Data

Table 1

Presence or absence of congenital sex organ malformation categorized by alcohol consumption of the mother [10].

Malformation	Alcohol consumption (average # drinks/day)
	0	<1	1-2	3–5	6
Absent	17066	14464	788	126	37
Present	48	38	5	1	1
Total	17114	14502	793	127	38