Glass and Hakstian (1969) recently presented a very convincing argument against the indiscriminate use of several proposed “measures of association.” The emphasis in this note is on where and when these indices would be appropriate, an issue not clearly delineated by the earlier critics. An example is included, and an extension made to multivariate applications.
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