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### Spearman's correlation on discrete data

I'd like to know if it makes sense to use Spearman's correlation on my dataset. Below are plots between my 3 variables : Correlation plot (Spearman): It seems it's pretty good but since I'm not from ...
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### Do Kendall’s tau and Spearman’s rho conclude the same hypothesis?

Correct me if I am wrong: both Kendall’s tau and Spearman’s rho are will result in the same conclusions with respect to whether the value of the underlying population correlation equals zero. I am ...
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### How to choose rank correlation coefficient?

I want to quantify correlation between rankings. Rankings in this case have got ties. Also rankings don't rank all the same entries, the rankings might be of different sizes and rank different sets, ...
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### What does spearman being higher than tau imply? [duplicate]

If Kendall's tau is lower than Spearman, what does it mean?
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### Equivalent to Spearman correlation for non-monotonic data

I have several datasets of independent variables that have a monotonic (but non-linear) relationship. If I want to assess if they're correlated, the test of choice is Spearman's (rho) or Kendall's (...
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### How to assess correlation in non-ordinal (non-ranked) and non-normally distributed data? [duplicate]

Looking at Person's, Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients for the same data, we can see that both Spearman's Rho and Kendall's Tau misrepresent the acutal correlation, if the data is ...
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### Correlation between two ordinal categorical variables

What is the best statistical test for investigating if there is any correlation between 2 categorical variables? Both are satisfaction scores: 1st variable is: Overall satisfaction with the service. ...
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### interpretation of Goodman Kruskal Gamma

Value of Goodman-Kruskal Gamma = 1 or -1 means that X and Y are monotonic but not strictly so i.e., $X_1 < X_2$ implies $Y_1 \leq Y_2$. Can someone please explain this to me with an example?
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### Am I using Goodman-Kruskal gamma or Somers D or Kendall tau correctly and what do they mean?

I am seemingly blindly following this publication that has done work very similar to what I need to accomplish (page 18-21). My analysis is a multinomial logistic regression where I have 3 possible ...
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### Hypothesis Testing using dichotomous and 7-point Likert scale

I am working on testing the following hypothesis: H1: People who are worried about their health will consume yogurt H0: People who are worried about their health will not consume yogurt I have ...
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### How can I test if there is a correlation between a score and a likert scale?

I'm having difficulty finding out what I can do with my data set. It comes from a french reading test that have 30 multiple choice questions. For each of these questions: I have the facility value ...
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### How to see if one (or one set of commonly answered) question(s) impacts/statistically influences another question/set of questions?

I'd like to review the results of a recent survey I conducted. I'd like to see how one set of answers may/may not have influenced another set of answers. For example: If users who answered ...
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### How to analyze relationship between a nominal variable (2 values) and a numerical variable (integer)?

I'm trying to find out if a nominal variable A (2 values: x and y) and a numerical variable <...
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### How do you correlate binary & ordinal variables?

Which test to use to calculate correlations between them? Cramer's V, Kruskal-Wallis, or something else?
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### Adding time variable?

Good day, guys. I'm new to SPSS and I plan to determine if there is any relationship between grades and time spent in watching tv/video game playing using Spearman's rank correlation. Question is, how ...

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