Download or read book Measures of Association written by Albert M. Liebetrau and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1983-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearly reviews the properties of important contemporary measures of association and correlation. Liebetrau devotes full chapters to measures for nominal, ordinal, and continuous (interval) data, paying special attention to the sampling distributions needed to determine levels of significance and confidence intervals. Valuable discussions also focus on the relationships between various measures, the sampling properties of their estimators and the comparative advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.