Measures of Association

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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 languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Biostatistics
Subtitle of host publicationArmitage Enc Biostats 2e
Publisherwiley
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780470011812
ISBN (Print)9780470849071
DOIs
StatePublished - 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

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