On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:40 +0300, Antti Arppe wrote: > Dear colleagues in R, > > Has anybody implemented the > > 1) (Goodman & Kruskal) lambda > > or the > > 2) (Thiel's) uncertainty coefficient > > statistics (in the asymmetric and symmetric forms), or is anyone aware > that they might reside in some package? A search in the R archives > does indicate that they are (somehow) part of the CoCo package, but I > would rather not start learning how to transform my data into > CoCo-format in order to access these functions, regardless of whether > the CoCo versions are actually intended for calculating the actual > statistic or for some other package internal purposes, as may > sometimes be the case. > > Furthermore, it appears to me that the 'somers2' function in the Hmisc > package applies Somers' D only to 2x2 and not larger tables. Am I > mistaken, or does there exist somewhere else an implementation of the > Somers' D statistic for the more general RxC tables? This was queried > in 1999, but no response seemed then to be forthcoming. > > Thanks and regards, > > -Antti Arppe
Antti, Under a separate e-mail to you, I have sent a text file containing R code for the above and other related association measures. If anyone else is interested in these, please let me know and I will be more than happy to forward them on. I did not want to consume a lot of bandwidth here. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
