1. Nominal/Ordinal Level Measures of Association
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2. Correlational Statistical Techniques
Statistical techniques designed to measure the extent to which two or more variables are related

3. Correlation Coefficients
Strength
0: no relationship
1: perfect relationship

4. Types of Correlation Coefficients
Nominal
Lambda: 

5. SPSS Crosstabs Procedure
Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Crosstabs
Statistics
Nominal
Contingency Coefficient
Phi and Cramer’s V
Lambda
Uncertainty Coefficient

6. SPSS Crosstabs Procedure -- continued
Ordinal
Gamma
Somers’ d
Kendall’s tau-b
Kendall’s tau-c