[R] Association between discrete and continuous variable

[Murray Jorgensen]

I'm wondering if mutual information al la Cover & Thomas (1991, Ch 2) is 
not the killer association measure for all types of random variables?

Murray Jorgensen

PS  Yes, this is probably OT!

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> What's the reommended way, in R, to determine the strength of
> association between a discrete variable and a continuous variable?
> 
> Yes, I have read the manuals, trawled the archives, &c.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> 
> 

-- 
Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz                                Fax 7 838 4155
Phone  +64 7 838 4773 wk    +64 7 849 6486 home    Mobile 021 1395 862