Question 1

If two variables are inversely related, cases that have low scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Accepted Answer

A)  high 
B)  low 
C)  missing 
A)  high 
B)  low 
C)  missing

Question 2

Which of the following is a nominal measure of association?

Accepted Answer

A)  coefficient of contingency 
B)  Kendall's tau-b 
C)  Kendall's tau-c 
D)  Somers' d 
A)  coefficient of contingency 
B)  Kendall's tau-b 
C)  Kendall's tau-c 
D)  Somers' d

Question 3

What are the names of two ordinal measures of association?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary: g

Question 4

Which of the following measures of association indicates the direction of a relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cramer's V 
B)  lambda 
C)  uncertainty coefficient 
D)  Kendall's tau-c 
A)  Cramer's V 
B)  lambda 
C)  uncertainty coefficient 
D)  Kendall's tau-c

Question 5

Which of the following gamma values indicates the strongest relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  −.50 
B)  .00 
C)  .10 
D)  .85 
A)  −.50 
B)  .00 
C)  .10 
D)  .85

Question 6

Which of the following gamma values indicates the weakest relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  −.90 
B)  −.45 
C)  .05 
D)  .55 
A)  −.90 
B)  −.45 
C)  .05 
D)  .55

Question 7

Which of the following is an ordinal measure of association?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cramer's V 
B)  Kendall's tau-b 
C)  lambda 
D)  uncertainty coefficient 
A)  Cramer's V 
B)  Kendall's tau-b 
C)  lambda 
D)  uncertainty coefficient

Question 8

If Betty and Ann form a discordant pair on the variables 1st exam grade and 2nd exam grade, then

Accepted Answer

A)  one of them got the better grade on both exams 
B)  one of them got the better grade on the 1st exam but the other got the better grade on the 2nd exam 
C)  they both got the same grade on one of the exams 
D)  one of them got the same grade on both exams 
A)  one of them got the better grade on both exams 
B)  one of them got the better grade on the 1st exam but the other got the better grade on the 2nd exam 
C)  they both got the same grade on one of the exams 
D)  one of them got the same grade on both exams

Question 9

What are the names of two nominal measures of association?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary: c

Question 10

The number of years a person has been married and their level of happiness with their marriage have a Kendall's tau-b value of .75. Which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Persons married fewer years tend to be happier with their marriage. 
B)  Persons married fewer years tend to be just as happy with their marriage as persons married more years. 
C)  Persons married more years tend to be happier with their marriage. 
D)  Persons married more years tend to be less happy with their marriage. 
A)  Persons married fewer years tend to be happier with their marriage. 
B)  Persons married fewer years tend to be just as happy with their marriage as persons married more years. 
C)  Persons married more years tend to be happier with their marriage. 
D)  Persons married more years tend to be less happy with their marriage.

Question 11

If a measure of association is asymmetric,

Accepted Answer

A)  it matters which is the independent variable and which is the dependent variable 
B)  the statistic can take on only positive values 
C)  the statistic can take on only negative values 
D)  the statistic can be used to measure the association between variables that have different levels of measurement 
A)  it matters which is the independent variable and which is the dependent variable 
B)  the statistic can take on only positive values 
C)  the statistic can take on only negative values 
D)  the statistic can be used to measure the association between variables that have different levels of measurement

Question 12

What kinds of questions can you answer using a measure of association?

Accepted Answer

Is there an association betwee

Question 13

Which of the following measures of association does NOT indicate the direction of a relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cramer's V 
B)  Pearson's r 
C)  Somers' d 
D)  tau-b 
A)  Cramer's V 
B)  Pearson's r 
C)  Somers' d 
D)  tau-b

Question 14

The value of Cramer's V is .65. This indicates what type of relationship?

Accepted Answer

A)  strong and positive 
B)  strong 
C)  very strong and positive 
D)  very strong 
A)  strong and positive 
B)  strong 
C)  very strong and positive 
D)  very strong

Question 15

Which of the following values for a statistic is clearly incorrect because it is outside the statistic's range?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cramer's V = .00 
B)  gamma = .40 
C)  Kendall's tau-b = .80 
D)  lambda = 1.20 
A)  Cramer's V = .00 
B)  gamma = .40 
C)  Kendall's tau-b = .80 
D)  lambda = 1.20

Question 16

If two variables are negatively related, cases that have high scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Accepted Answer

A)  high 
B)  low 
C)  missing 
A)  high 
B)  low 
C)  missing

Question 17

Why would it not make sense for a nominal measure of association to indicate direction of the relationship?

Accepted Answer

The attributes of nominal variables lack

Question 18

Which of the following is a proportional reduction in error (PRE) measure of association?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cramer's V 
B)  gamma 
C)  lambda 
D)  tau-b 
A)  Cramer's V 
B)  gamma 
C)  lambda 
D)  tau-b

If two variables are inversely related, cases that have low scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Which of the following is a nominal measure of association?

What are the names of two ordinal measures of association?

Which of the following measures of association indicates the direction of a relationship?

Which of the following gamma values indicates the strongest relationship?

Which of the following gamma values indicates the weakest relationship?

Which of the following is an ordinal measure of association?

If Betty and Ann form a discordant pair on the variables 1^st exam grade and 2^nd exam grade, then

What are the names of two nominal measures of association?

The number of years a person has been married and their level of happiness with their marriage have a Kendall's tau-b value of .75. Which of the following is true?

If a measure of association is asymmetric,

What kinds of questions can you answer using a measure of association?

Which of the following measures of association does NOT indicate the direction of a relationship?

The value of Cramer's V is .65. This indicates what type of relationship?

Which of the following values for a statistic is clearly incorrect because it is outside the statistic's range?

If two variables are negatively related, cases that have high scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Why would it not make sense for a nominal measure of association to indicate direction of the relationship?

Which of the following is a proportional reduction in error (PRE) measure of association?

Introduction

Data Sets

Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts

Central Tendency and Dispersion

Creating New Variables

Comparing Group Means

Crosstab Tables

Pearsons Correlation and Bivariate Regression

Multiple Regression

Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions

Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample T Tests

Paired and Independent-Samples T Tests

Analysis of Variance

Chi-Square

Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression

Filters

Exam 8: Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association

If two variables are inversely related, cases that have low scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Which of the following is a nominal measure of association?

What are the names of two ordinal measures of association?

Which of the following measures of association indicates the direction of a relationship?

Which of the following gamma values indicates the strongest relationship?

Which of the following gamma values indicates the weakest relationship?

Which of the following is an ordinal measure of association?

If Betty and Ann form a discordant pair on the variables 1st exam grade and 2nd exam grade, then

What are the names of two nominal measures of association?

The number of years a person has been married and their level of happiness with their marriage have a Kendall's tau-b value of .75. Which of the following is true?

If a measure of association is asymmetric,

What kinds of questions can you answer using a measure of association?

Which of the following measures of association does NOT indicate the direction of a relationship?

The value of Cramer's V is .65. This indicates what type of relationship?

Which of the following values for a statistic is clearly incorrect because it is outside the statistic's range?

If two variables are negatively related, cases that have high scores on one variable will tend to have _____ scores on the other variable.

Why would it not make sense for a nominal measure of association to indicate direction of the relationship?

Which of the following is a proportional reduction in error (PRE) measure of association?

Introduction

Data Sets

Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts

Central Tendency and Dispersion

Creating New Variables

Comparing Group Means

Crosstab Tables

Pearsons Correlation and Bivariate Regression

Multiple Regression

Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions

Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample T Tests

Paired and Independent-Samples T Tests

Analysis of Variance

Chi-Square

Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression

Filters

If Betty and Ann form a discordant pair on the variables 1^st exam grade and 2^nd exam grade, then