SOC 325 Lecture Notes - Alternative Hypothesis, Food Bank, Recode

• School: U of S
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 325
• Professor: Elizabeth Quinlan

Document Summary

Measures of association for ordinal variables chapter 12. Two types of ordinal variables: collapsed: no more than 5-6 categories. Gamma (g) is measure of association for a 2 ordinal level variables that have been arranged in a bivariate table. Symmetric measure -- same value regardless of which is independent, which is dependent. Steven level of income whereas steven has a low level of education and low level of income. Joseph has a high level of education and a high. For this pair of cases than steven and joseph also reporst a higher level of income than steven: dissimilar pair: Carole reports a higher level of education than matt but carole has a lower level of income than matt. If n was 50 the number of pairs would be. Gamma ignores all tied pairs of casses: tied pairs: education high high. Pairs that are tied on the independent variable. Pairs that are tied on the dependent variable.