The Assignment of Scores Procedure for Ordinal Categorical Data

Table 4

The results of responses about belief in heaven with different formulas.

	Definitely	Probably	Probably not	Definitely not
Count	1546	498	205	138
Proportion	0.648	0.209	0.086	0.058
Agrestic normal score	−0.457	0.681	1.277	1.897
Normal score	−0.45699	0.680765	1.277267	1.897112
Exponential score	0.391322	1.394286	2.295073	3.543686
Logistic score	−0.73619	1.109254	2.188874	3.514354
Lognormal score	0.633184	1.975389	3.586822	6.666614