Annette, If you had ranked all 10 of each item, then Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance, W, would have been appropriate (which, it turns out, is a function of the mean of Spearman rhos (rank-order correlation coefficients) between all possible pairs of variable). But sine you didn’t rank them all, I’m not sure whether there is a hack that can allow you to use it.
It occurs to me that there might be some way of using the combinations of 10 things taken 3 at a time (perhaps forgetting about the 1-2-3 ranking?) to create a useful binomial probability, but I can’t work it out completely at the moment. Best, Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773895°, -79.503670° [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... On Dec 27, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Annette Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to know if there even is an adequate statistical test, other than > using descriptives for this situation: > > We asked people to order their number 1, 2, 3 choices from a list of 10 > options. So 7 options were essentially all tied at 0. So this would be ranked > and ordinal data to the best of my understanding. I wonder if we should have > made them rank all 10? But we really weren't interested in anything less than > the top three. > > We'd like to see whether there is a systematic, not attributable to chance > way to characterize the choices that people made. > > Any ideas? I have been directed to a website that offers what seem to me to > be partial solutions but I'd like to see if any of you have any other > suggestions that are not biased by the other suggestion. > > Thanks! > > Annette > > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Visiting Professor, > Ashoka University, Delhi, India > [email protected] > Professor, Psychological Sciences > University of San Diego > [email protected] > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=47685 > or send a blank email to > leave-47685-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47687 or send a blank email to leave-47687-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
