Frankfort-Nachmias and Leon-Guerrero: Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, Sixth Edition

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Chapter 12: Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
By now, you have probably had at least some exposure to one or more statistical software
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its own set of problems" 'ne such problem that is particularly potent for students new to
statistics is how to interpret the various (uantities that are produced by #$## when calculatin
the values of lambda and amma for nominal and ordinal variables" )o illustrate this, naviate to
the followin *+L:
http:,,www"utexas"edu,courses,schwab,sw-./0sprin01223,#olvin$roblems,4lass..0Lambda
NGamma"ppt
)his presentation will take you throuh two #$## examples, one usin lambda and one usin
amma, from start to finish" 5any of the nuances of interpretin an #$## output are covered" 6t
the end of the presentation, make a list of three thins that you did not know about calculatin or
interpretin lambda or amma before you viewed these slides" 4an you think of other
information that was not included in the presentation that would also be useful to have included
in this presentation7