Example of the Measures of Association Option

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Example of the Measures of Association Option

This example uses the Car Poll.jmp sample data table. Examine the probability of being married for males and females.

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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Car Poll.jmp.

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Select Analyze > Fit Y by X.

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Select marital status and click Y, Response.

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Select sex and click X, Factor.

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From the red triangle menu next to Contingency Analysis, select Measures of Association.

Figure 6.112 Example of the Measures of Association Report

Since the variables that you want to examine (sex and marital status) are nominal, use the Lambda and Uncertainty measures. All of them are small, so it seems that there is a weak association between sex and marital status.

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Help created on 7/12/2018