Descriptive measures for nominal categorical variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 982-989

  Biswas, Atanu ^a   Mandal, Saumen ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association; Entropy; Probability of incorrect guess; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952241519     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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