David Airey wrote:
>If you have a table of two categorical variables (e.g., country and
>income group) and you can make a table of frequencies of each country
>and income group combination, a chi-square statistic is one way to ask
>if there is an association between the two variables.
I agree, it sounds like a two-way table of income group by country:
-tabulate-, with the desire being to count the number of individuals in
each income group. Ultimately I would guess the objective is to compare
the profiles of each country. The word "paired test" just makes no sense
to me in this context, but I could be confused.
It is a
>nonparametric test.
I guess. I'm always uncomfortable with "nonparametric" because a lot
(most? all?) of nonparametric procedures are estimating *some*
parameter.
JV
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