Abstract
Goodman and Kruskal's T b statistic is frequently employed by sociologists to measure association among categorical polytomies. The test of the null hypothesis T b = 0 is presently limited to an asymptotic approximation that fails to adjust for unbalanced marginals, yielding inaccurate probability values. This article details a nonasymptotic test of significance that adjusts for unbalanced marginals.
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Kruskal's algorithmCategorical variableStatisticNull hypothesisStatisticsMathematicsTest statisticNull (SQL)EconometricsKruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of varianceStatistical hypothesis testingCombinatoricsComputer scienceData miningMann–Whitney U test
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- 1985
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- article
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 543-550
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- 34
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Kenneth J. Berry,
Paul W. Mielke
(1985).
Goodman and Kruskal's TAU-B Statistic.
Sociological Methods & Research
, 13
(4)
, 543-550.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124185013004005
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- 10.1177/0049124185013004005