Abstract
The methods and discussion in this section have application when there is interest in
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establishing if there is evidence of an association between two variables;
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examining the nature of the relationship between two variables when there is evidence of an association;
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measuring the degree of association between two variables.
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McPherson, G. (1990). Studying Association and Correlation. In: Statistics in Scientific Investigation. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4290-9_17
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