[R] testing independence of categorical variables

[John Kane]

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--- Shoaaib Mehmood <shoaaib at gmail.com> wrote:

> i cant find help for xtab. Which package contains
> this function
> 
> On Nov 24, 2007 12:16 PM, G Ilhamto
> <gilhamto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi shohaib,
> > have you tried xtab instead of chisq.test?
> >
> > Ilham
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2007 6:16 AM, Shoaaib Mehmood
> <shoaaib at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > is there a way of calculating of measuring
> dependence between two
> > > categorical variables. i tried using the chi
> square test to test for
> > > independence but i got error saying that the
> lengths of the two
> > > vectors don't match. Suppose X and Y are two
> factors. X has 5 levels
> > > and Y has 7 levels. This is what i tried doing
> > >
> > > >temp<-chisq.test(x,y)
> > >
> > > but got error "the lengths of the two vectors
> don't match". any help
> > > will be appreciated
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Rana Shoaaib Mehmood
> > >
> > >
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rana Shoaaib Mehmood
> (+92) 333 550 4531
> 
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