Hi Ted, thanks for the responce, I already tried that (assigning 1 and 0 instead of true/false), I just was not sure if it's the right way to go.
Best, Tamara ________________________________________ From: Ted Dunning [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 6:22 PM To: Commons Users List Subject: Re: Correlation coefficient On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Bobic, Tamara <[email protected]> wrote: > However, I realized that I should be using a special variant of Pearson if > one of the variables is nominal - Point Biserial correlation coefficient. > Doesn't this just work if you build a surrogate for the dichotomous variable with values 0 and 1? (I would think that there are generally better options for this like Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
