Measures of Association

Harry J. Khamis

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Measures of Association

Harry J. Khamis

Wright State University

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Abstract

This contribution provides an overview of the commonly used measures of association for categorical variables. The discussion of these measures is broken down by (1) the size of the contingency table, (2) the measurement scale of the variables involved, and (3) the interpretability of the measure.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/0470011815.b2a10001
State	Published - Jan 1 2005

Keywords

categorical
chi-square
contingency table
nominal
ordinal

Disciplines

Applied Mathematics
Applied Statistics
Mathematics
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Statistics and Probability

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