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A Note on Freeman's Measure of Association for Relating an Ordered to an Unordered Factor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Lawrence Hubert
Lawrence Hubert*
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University of Wisconsin
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Abstract

Within the context of a contingency table, this note describes the relationship between Freeman's measure of association θ and the asymmetric association measures developed by Somers. The θ coefficient is appropriate for a contingency table in which the levels of one factor are ordered and the levels of the other factor are unordered; the indices defined by Somers are usually used when the levels of both factors are ordered and one is assumed to be the independent factor.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , December 1974 , pp. 517 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © 1974 The Psychometric Society

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