Link Strength and Volume of Information in Contingency Tables - Two Problems of Measure in Data Analysis. This article presents on-going work concerning the unhealthy use of certain statistical measures. It flrst of all proposes a tool for measuring the internal correlation within a large dimensional contingency table in order to be able to compare other similar table in this framework by using a cœfficient whose values are between 0 and 1. The article then studies the information contained in a table which would correspond to the situation of statistical independence between variables during correspondence analysis. Using the hypothesls this quantity of Information should be taken into account before a correspondence analysis, the article then proposed a tool for measuring that volume of information that sociologists usually do not treat as such.
