Goodman and Kruskal's TAU-B Statistic
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research
- Vol. 13 (4), 543-550
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124185013004005
Abstract
Goodman and Kruskal's Tb statistic is frequently employed by sociologists to measure association among categorical polytomies. The test of the null hypothesis Tb = 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.Keywords
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