[R] Suitable test for ordinal variable vs continuous variable trend

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Brewer
Dear all, For a population of about 200 I have a continuous variable and an ordinal variable. The question I would like to ask is whether the continuously increases (or decreases) as the rank of the ordinal variable increases. I was thinking that a Spearmen's rank correlation or or a chi

Re: [R] Suitable test for ordinal variable vs continuous variable trend

2010-12-02 Thread Greg Snow
Of Daniel Brewer Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:17 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Suitable test for ordinal variable vs continuous variable trend Dear all, For a population of about 200 I have a continuous variable and an ordinal variable. The question I would like to ask