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
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GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document: |
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Variable Name |
Variable Label |
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| 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 |