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Measures of association for nominal data

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This chapter discusses measures of association for two variables when at least one of the variables is measured at the nominal level. It will concentrate on two frequently used measures for such data: Cramer’s V and lambda.

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© 1997 George Argyrous

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Argyrous, G. (1997). Measures of association for nominal data. In: Statistics for Social Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14777-9_20

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