Roger Newson wrote:
One other alternative for measuring trend in ordered categorical data (or
other ordinal data) is the -somersd- package, downloadable from SSC, which
computes confidence intervals for Somers' D or Kendall's tau-a. To in stall
inside Web-aware Stata, type
ssc inst somersd
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In a hurry to post, it seemed inevitable that I would overlook something
obvious to include in the list of alternatives. Apologies for the
oversight.
Joseph Coveney
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