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43 questions linked to/from Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables
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Correlation between a numeric and factor in R [duplicate]
I'm new to R and I'm trying to find the correlation between a numeric variable and a factor one.
I have a data frame with the following 3 columns:
1. nr of clicks (range 0:14)
2. response (1= "YES", 0=...
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Correlation between scale and categorical variable [duplicate]
I am trying to find the correlation or association between a categorical variable - classes from 1 -4 from a GIS (geographic information system) classification - and a continuous variable with values ...
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Correlation between continuous and binary variables [duplicate]
Is there a way to check for correlation between a continuous variable (year of graduation) and a binary variable (yes/no--took a specific course) with n=85, particularly using SPSS? Our hypothesis is ...
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Testing correlation between a Boolean and integer variable [duplicate]
I have data that looks like this:
Is there a standard test that I can use to evaluate the correlation between the rank and Boolean attribute?
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Check correlation between dichotomous and continuous variable [duplicate]
I have a model in which I suspect two variables to may be related. However, one is a binary/dichotomous variable, while the other is a continous variable. What approach should be used to check if my ...
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Correlation between a continuous and multinomial variable [duplicate]
I would like to find the correlation between a continuous (dependent variable) and a categorical (multinomial) variable. I found that the appropriate test is Eta ($\eta$) coefficient, however, I haven'...
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Correlation between a categorical and a continuous (scale) variable [duplicate]
How can I find the correlation between a categorical (dependent) variable and a continuous-scale (independent) variable? Is a Kruskal Wallis test appropriate? I'm a little confused as my independent ...
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Correlation metric for 0-1 vector and real values vector [duplicate]
I am looking for a right correlation metric to measure correlation between two vectors. The dimensionality of the vectors is around 100. The first vector has real values as the elements and the second ...
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Pearson correlation binary vs continuous [duplicate]
I keep seeing that we can't use Pearson correlation for binary variables but I don't understand why. If instead of a binary response, I have multiple (>2) categories, then it's obvious - we are unsure ...
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Is there a measure of association for a nominal DV and an interval IV? [duplicate]
As part of a larger analysis, I'm interested in examining the relationship between an interval level variable and a four category nominal variable. In this case, the interval variable is the ...
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Correlation with no numeric and numeric variable [duplicate]
Can someone enlighten me ? I know it's very basic but i'm really confused with how to make correlation with numeric AND non-numeric variable.
I have a data.frame with multiple variables. Some of it ...
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Correlation analysis with dichotomous variables [duplicate]
Could correlation analysis with Pearson correlation or Spearman rank correlation be done between continuous variable and categorical dichotomous variable eg, presence or absence of hypertension? My ...
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How to find correlation between continuous variable and yes/no question? [duplicate]
I'm trying to find out if there is correlation between website clicks and sales. In order to do this, I'm trying to find the correlation between a nominal question (Yes and No) and a continuous ...
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What is way to measure relationship between independent categorical variable on dependent variable (categorical/continuous)? [duplicate]
If both dependent and independent are continuous then we can find correlation and we know which column can be more influential. But if independent variable is categorical, how will i know how much it ...
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Nonparametric Correlation with Dichotomous Variable [duplicate]
I have a continuous variable (total cholesterol mg/dl) and a dichotomous variable (gender). I want to see whether a relationship exists between the total cholesterol level and gender.
The data is ...
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