ABSTRACT

Much of the data collected in medicine and the social sciences is categorical, for example, sex, marital status, blood group, whether a smoker or not and so on, rather than interval-scaled. Frequently the researcher collecting such data is interested in the relationships or associations between pairs, or between a set of such categorical variables;

chapter 1|10 pages

Contingency tables and the chi-square test

chapter 2|26 pages

2 × 2 contiogeecy tables

chapter 3|23 pages

r × c contingency fables

chapter 4|13 pages

Multidimensional tables

chapter 5|25 pages

Log-linear models for contingency tables

chapter 6|19 pages

Linear-logistic models

chapter 7|19 pages

Contingency tables with ordered categories

chapter 8|15 pages

Some special types of contingency table