The Probabilistic Graphical Models use graphs in order to represent the joint distribution of q variables. These models are useful for their ability to capture and represent the system of independence ...

For two categorical variables, one measured on an ordinal scale and one measured on a nominal scale, you may assign scores to the levels of the ordinal variable and test whether the mean scores for ...

Measures of dispersion for categorical random variables based on penalty functions play a central role in establishing relevant measures of association between such variables. The literature ...