Download or read book Nonparametric Measures of Association written by Jean Dickinson Gibbons and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at helping the researcher select the most appropriate measure of association for two or more variables, the author clearly describes such techniques as Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau, Goodman and Kruskals' gamma and Somer's d and carefully explains the calculation procedures as well as the substantive meaning of each measure.