Example of the Measures of Association Option

Use the Contingency platform to examine the association of being married with gender.

1. Select Help > Sample Data Folder and open Car Poll.jmp.

2. Select Analyze > Fit Y by X.

3. Select marital status and click Y, Response.

4. Select sex and click X, Factor.

5. Click OK.

6. Click the Contingency Analysis red triangle menu and select Measures of Association.

Figure 7.15 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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