Entry:

Agresti, Alan, "Considerations in Measuring Partial Association for Ordinal Categorical Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 72 (March, 1977), 37-45.


Abstract:

A weighted average of Kendall’s Tau-b better describes the association between two ordinal categorical variables, controlling for other variables, than either the partial gamma or Kendall’s partial tau.

GSS Years:

1972

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

CHLDIDEL

IDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN

ABDEFECT

STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT

ABNOMORE

MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN

ABHLTH

WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED

ABPOOR

LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN

ABRAPE

PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE

ABSINGLE

NOT MARRIED