Re: Correlating binary variables
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- Subject: [mg70308] Re: Correlating binary variables
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
On 10/11/06 at 1:53 AM, micky at hotmail.com (mickey) wrote: >I have a problem where I am trying to find the correlation between a >series of binary variables. >10101000101010010 11010010100101001 01010010100100101 >and so on. What is good way of going about this? Linear regression >doesnt seem to be that good a way of doing things when both >variables are binary. You haven't really defined what you mean by "correlation between a series of binary variables" nor have you said anything as to what you plan to do with this information. Possibly a non-parametric measure of correlation such as Kendall's tau will do. Take a look at the function KendallRankCorrelation in the package Statistics`MultiDescriptiveStatistics. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four