Answer to Question #209836 in Statistics and Probability for YOLO

Question

What statistical test do you use to measure an association between one nominal scaled 

variable and one ordinal scaled variable? 

a.) Spearman Rank Correlation 

b.) Chi-square Test 

c.) Regression Analysis 

d.) None of the above, you can’t measure an association between variables from different 

types of data. 

Answer 1

Solution:

To measure an association between one nominal scaled variable and one ordinal scaled variable, we use Chi-square test because the calculated value of Chi would provide us an idea of significance between these variables.

Hence, option b) is correct.