st: RE: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?

["Visintainer, Paul" <Paul.Visintainer@baystatehealth.org>]

Yes, in fact many of the contingency coefficients will give equivalent results for 2x2 tables:

.sysuse auto
.gen pricecat=cond(price>=5000,1,0)
.tab foreign pricecat, all
.corr foreign pricecat
.spearman foreign pricecat


Cramer's V, Spearman rho, and Pearson's correlation all give the same value.  Another is called the "phi" coefficient, which can be computed as the sqrt(chisquare/N)

.di sqrt(2.3287/74)

-Paul

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Paul F. Visintainer, PhD
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, MA 01199


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Marcos Vinicius
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 4:32 PM
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Subject: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?

Hello,
Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?
I was wondering if Spearman's rho could be adequate  because I have used the phi coefficient to quantify association among several  binary variables and the results are identifical compared with Spearman's rho coefficient . 
Best regards,
Marcos Vinicius

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