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Re: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?
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Mon, 21 May 2012 08:56:25 +0200
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Marcos Vinicius wrote:
> I was conducting a multicollinearity diagnostic analysis for a logistic regression using spearman correlation and VIF. Important detail:All the covariates are binary variables.
Multicollinearity is never a problem, see e.g.:
<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg00675.html>, so
there is nothing to diagnose. If you want to inspect the association
between binary covariates I would look at a table of odds ratios.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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