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Nominal/Ordinal Level Measures of Association. CJ 526 Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice. Correlational Statistical Techniques. Statistical techniques designed to measure the extent to which two or more variables are related. Correlation Coefficients. Strength 0: no relationship
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Nominal/Ordinal Level Measures of Association CJ 526 Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice
Correlational Statistical Techniques • Statistical techniques designed to measure the extent to which two or more variables are related
Correlation Coefficients • Strength • 0: no relationship • 1: perfect relationship
Types of Correlation Coefficients • Nominal • Lambda:
SPSS Crosstabs Procedure • Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Crosstabs • Statistics • Nominal • Contingency Coefficient • Phi and Cramer’s V • Lambda • Uncertainty Coefficient
SPSS Crosstabs Procedure -- continued • Ordinal • Gamma • Somers’ d • Kendall’s tau-b • Kendall’s tau-c