Dear statalist,
I want to investigate possible relationships between different types of variables. If have got some continuous, some ordinal and one dichotomous (nominal with two options) variables. To be more precise, variables describe persons by for example their age, personality items (with 5 or 7 point Likert scale) and their gender (dichotomous). Moreover, I have got a mean of decisions to act over periods. For example a value of 0.50 for the case, that this person decided to do something in half of all periods.
I thought about using the spearman correlation as a non-parametric test. However, I'm unsure if I can do it with a dichotomous or in fact any nominal variable. What is your opinion on that?
Thank you very much!
Kim
I want to investigate possible relationships between different types of variables. If have got some continuous, some ordinal and one dichotomous (nominal with two options) variables. To be more precise, variables describe persons by for example their age, personality items (with 5 or 7 point Likert scale) and their gender (dichotomous). Moreover, I have got a mean of decisions to act over periods. For example a value of 0.50 for the case, that this person decided to do something in half of all periods.
I thought about using the spearman correlation as a non-parametric test. However, I'm unsure if I can do it with a dichotomous or in fact any nominal variable. What is your opinion on that?
Thank you very much!
Kim
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