The subjective assessment of quality of life, personal skills and the agreement with a certain opinion are common issues in clinical, social, behavioral and marketing research. A wide set of surveys providing ordinal data arises. Beside such variables, other common surveys generate responses on a continuous scale, where the variable actual point value cannot be observed since data belong to certain groups. This paper introduces a re-formalization of the recent “Monotonic Dependence Coefficient” (MDC) suitable to all frameworks in which, given two variables, the independent variable is expressed in ordinal categories and the dependent variable is grouped. We denote this novel coefficient with MDCgo. The MDCgo behavior and the scenarios in which it presents better performance with respect to the alternative correlation/association measures, such as Spearman’s r rS, Kendall’s τb and Somers’ Δ coefficients, are explored through a Monte Carlo simulation study. Finally, to shed light on the usefulness of the proposal in real surveys, an application to drug-expenditure data is considered.

MDCgo takes up the association/correlation challenge for grouped ordinal data / E. Raffinetti, F. Aimar. - In: ASTA ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. - ISSN 1863-8171. - 103:4(2019), pp. 527-561.

MDCgo takes up the association/correlation challenge for grouped ordinal data

E. Raffinetti
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2019

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The subjective assessment of quality of life, personal skills and the agreement with a certain opinion are common issues in clinical, social, behavioral and marketing research. A wide set of surveys providing ordinal data arises. Beside such variables, other common surveys generate responses on a continuous scale, where the variable actual point value cannot be observed since data belong to certain groups. This paper introduces a re-formalization of the recent “Monotonic Dependence Coefficient” (MDC) suitable to all frameworks in which, given two variables, the independent variable is expressed in ordinal categories and the dependent variable is grouped. We denote this novel coefficient with MDCgo. The MDCgo behavior and the scenarios in which it presents better performance with respect to the alternative correlation/association measures, such as Spearman’s r rS, Kendall’s τb and Somers’ Δ coefficients, are explored through a Monte Carlo simulation study. Finally, to shed light on the usefulness of the proposal in real surveys, an application to drug-expenditure data is considered.
grouped-ordinal data; dependence; correlation coefficients; association coefficients; Monte Carlo simulations
Settore SECS-S/01 - Statistica
2019
20-set-2018
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