correlation with ordinal data

Bev · Post by **Bev** » Fri May 12, 2023 7:52 pm

HI I am trying to run correlations with ordinal data but Jamovi does not allow me to do so. Can anyone help?

reason180 · Post by **reason180** » Fri May 12, 2023 10:14 pm

I would suggest changing the scale to "continuous" and then running a rank-based nonparametric correlation: Either Spearman's Rho or Kendell's Tau-b.

Bev · Post by **Bev** » Fri May 12, 2023 11:18 pm

Wouldn't that be "unethical"...?

seol · Post by **seol** » Sat May 13, 2023 12:51 am

Hi Bev

you can use 'polychoric' correlation with ordinal data by using 'seolmatrix' module in jamovi library.

Best

Seol

Post by **jonathon** » Mon May 15, 2023 12:43 am

correlation with ordinal data will be fixed in the next release.

cheers

jonathon

reason180 · Post by **reason180** » Mon May 15, 2023 4:39 am

Re: "Wouldn't that be unethical?"
No. And see https://forum.jamovi.org/viewtopic.php?t=2568

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