Selecting Statistics

Statistical Test

Goodman and Kruskal's tau b

Statistical Measure

Refer critical ratio of tau b to a table of the unit normal curve.

Notes

tau b: Blalock, H. M., Jr. Social Statistics. Second edition, revised, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. p. 307

Critical ratio of tau b: Goodman, L. A., and Kruskal, W. H. Measures of association for cross classification IV: simplification of asymptotic variances. Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 (1972): 415-421. p. 417