[R] Association between discrete and continuous variable

[Jonathan Baron]

On 07/12/04 18:23, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>What's the reommended way, in R, to determine the strength of
>association between a discrete variable and a continuous variable?

Analysis of variance?  aov()?  R^2?

It seems to me, though, that there are many possible answers, and
this really doesn't have much to do with R because R could
implement them all.  It may matter whether the discrete variable
is ordered or not, whether it is fixed or random, what the error
distributions of the continuous variable look like, what measures
of association are traditional in your field, etc. etc.

Jon
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