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 |
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| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Biostatistics |
| Subtitle of host publication | Armitage Enc Biostats 2e |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780470011812 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470849071 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2005 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Mathematics
Keywords
- categorical
- chi-square
- contingency table
- nominal
- ordinal
Disciplines
- Applied Mathematics
- Applied Statistics
- Mathematics
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- Statistics and Probability