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S4.4 - Contingency Tables and Association
Contingency Tables and Association
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Mathematics
Graduate
11/05/2013

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Term
Contingency table
Definition
A two-way table that relates two categories of data
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Row variable
Definition
Horizontal in a table
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Column variable
Definition
Vertical in a table
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Cell
Definition
Each box inside a table
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Marginal distribution
Definition
The frequency of relative frequency distribution of either the row or column variable in the contingency table
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Conditional distribution
Definition
Lists the relative frequency of each category of a variable, given a specific value of the other variable in the contingency table
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Simpson's paradox
Definition
A situation in which an association between two variables inverts or goes away when a third variable is introduced to the analysis
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