The following are measures of ordinal association that consider whether the variable Y tends to increase as X increases: gamma, Kendall's tau-b, Stuart's tau-c, and Somers' D. These measures are ...

2. In a relationship between an ordinal-scale variable and a nominal-scale variable, which measures of association are appropriate? Gamma, Somers' d, or Spearman's rho can be used with this type of ...

Finally, we constructed the BRPS by refining the categories and ranking the descriptors each on an ordinal scale. This led to a multidimensional pain scale composed of six categories (Demeanour, ...