Hi. do somebody know if Kendall's tau-B value of 0,06 or 0,11, 0,14, 0,20 is a fair or weak association? or how to make interpretation?
Thing is, we are writing a descriptive study, the sample size is good enough: 1400. but when looking for correlation of ordinal variables using Kendall's Tau-b, we find about 10 statistically significant positive correlations (both P and B10). Still, the magnitude of Kendall's Tau looks too small. I looked for information regarding how small is too small for a Tau, like support to a state that it has a weak, fair, or strong correlation, but didn't found some guidelines for it, only info stating that Tau magnitudes tend to be smaller than spearman's rho.
any help is more than welcome
You might find this useful:
https://www.cedu.niu.edu/~walker/personal/Walker%20Kendall's%20Tau.pdf
Dear David,
Please check this link. It will help you.
https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/kendalls-tau-b-using-spss-statistics.php
Kendall's tau-B values:
- Less than + or - 0.10: very weak
- + or -0.10 to 0.19: weak
- + or - 0.20 to 0.29: moderate
- + or - 0.30 or above: strong
Dear Konstantinos Mastrothanasis where have you obtain these ranges from? It will be very useful to have
Dear Karel Kok and Paul MacDonald I have found this information here:
http://polisci.usca.edu/apls301/Text/Chapter%2012.%20Significance%20and%20Measures%20of%20Association.htm
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