Any of the usual rank correlation methods should be fine if you're expecting a monotonic relationship e.g. Spearman's rho or Kendall's tau.
> On 1 Sep 2017, at 21:25, merlinverde...@infomed.sld.cu wrote: > > I would be very grateful if you would tell me how I can find the degree of > correlation between a nominal dependent variable and an independent ordinal > variable. The nominal variable has only two levels: YES and NO. > thank you very much in advance > regards, > merlin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > Este mensaje le ha llegado mediante el servicio de correo electronico que > ofrece Infomed para respaldar el cumplimiento de las misiones del Sistema > Nacional de Salud. La persona que envia este correo asume el compromiso de > usar el servicio a tales fines y cumplir con las regulaciones establecidas > > Infomed: http://www.sld.cu/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
