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How do I study the “correlation” between a continuous variable and a categorical variable?

What's a meaningful "correlation" measure to study the relation between the such two types of variables? In R, how to do it? Thanks a lot!
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Association between 2 categorical data (using SPSS)

In a sample of 250 cardiac patients who have had a myocardial infarction and just left hospital, I asked them how important it was to them to know several issues, such as "How important is it for you ...
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Correlation between dichotomous and continuous variable

I am trying to find the correlation between a dichotomous and a continuous variable. From my ground work on this I found that I have to use independent t-test and the precondition for it is that the ...
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Measure of association for 2x3 contingency table

I have a 2x3 contingency table - the row variable is a factor, the column variable is an ordered factor (ordinal level). I'd like to apply either symmetrical or asymmetrical association technique. ...
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Cross tabulation of two categorical variables: recommended techniques

I'm aware that this one is far from yes or no question, but I'd like to know which techniques do you prefer in categorical data analysis - i.e. cross tabulation with two categorical variables. I've ...