Contingency table
Term · Chemistry · MLC-T-CHM-012993
A tabular display of the frequency distribution of variables, typically used to examine the relationship between two or more categorical variables. Each cell in the table represents the count of observations that fall into a specific combination of categories. This statistical tool is used to analyze associations between qualitative data sets.
| Identifier | MLC-T-CHM-012993 |
|---|---|
| Field | Chemistry |
| Subject | Analytical Chemistry |
| Synonyms | cross tabulation |
| References | PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 409 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605) |
| See also | Categorical data |
Record as JSON
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