Measures of Correlation and Contingency

Overview

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This course provides a comprehensive exploration of statistical relationships, focusing on the principles and applications of correlation and contingency tables. Students will learn to identify appropriate scenarios for using correlation, understand its logic, and describe its direction and strength. The course also covers the use of contingency tables, teaching students to recognize patterns of association within them.

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Measures of Correlation and Contingency

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of statistical relationships, focusing on the principles and applications of correlation and contingency tables. Students will learn to identify appropriate scenarios for using correlation, understand its logic, and describe its direction and strength. The course also covers the use of contingency tables, teaching students to recognize patterns of association within them.

The Meaning of Correlation and Contingency

What kinds of relationships are there between variables? As you will see in this module, the answer depends on the kinds of variables. How do we envision those relationships? This module explains what we can do with a data set to begin to see the relationship, if any, between two variables? And if there is a relationship, how do we interpret it? This module delves into what we can and cannot conclude when we observe a relationship between two variables.

Correlation and Regression

In this module, we look in more detail at how correlation is used to examine the relationship between two variables, along with how related regression procedures can be used to specifically characterize how the value of one variable can be used to predict the value of the other.

Contingency Table Analysis

In this module, we look in more detail at how contingency tables are used to examine the relationship between two nominal- or ordinal-level variables, along with some measures of the strength of a contingency relationship.

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