DECOMPOSITION OF INDEPENDENCE USING PEARSON, KENDALL AND SPEARMAN’S CORRELATIONS AND ASSOCIATION MODEL FOR TWO-WAY CLASSIFICATIONS

Kouji Tahata (Japan), Nobuko Miyamoto (Japan) and Sadao Tomizawa (Japan)

Received March 10, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: independence, Kendall’s tau-b, linear-by-linear association, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman’s rho, uniform association.