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A Still Further Note on Freeman's Measure of Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Jane L. Buck  and
Stephen L. Finner
Jane L. Buck*
Affiliation:
Delaware State College
Stephen L. Finner
Affiliation:
American Association of University Professors
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to Jane L. Buck, Department of Psychology, Delaware State College, Dover, DE 19901.
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Abstract

This article demonstrates that Freeman's theta, a measure of association between a nominal variable and an ordinal variable, has a sampling distribution identical with the sampling distribution of Mann-Whitney's U.

Keywords

correlationFreemanmeasure of associationnominalnon-parametricsampling distribution
Type
Notes And Comments
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 365 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 The Psychometric Society

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