SquareTable.test_ordinal_association()

statsmodels.stats.contingency_tables.SquareTable.test_ordinal_association

SquareTable.test_ordinal_association(row_scores=None, col_scores=None)

Assess independence between two ordinal variables.

This is the ‘linear by linear’ association test, which uses weights or scores to target the test to have more power against ordered alternatives.

Parameters:

Parameters:	row_scores : array-like An array of numeric row scores col_scores : array-like An array of numeric column scores

row_scores : array-like

An array of numeric row scores

col_scores : array-like

An array of numeric column scores