The Goodman-Kruskal tau index is a popular measure of asymmetry for two-way contingency tables where there is a one-way relationship between the variables. Numerous extensions of this index for multi-way tables have been considered in the statistical literature. These include the Gray-Williams...

Recently (Beh, 2008, JSPI) presented an index that helps to identify how likely two dichotomous categorical variables may be associated given only the aggregate (or marginal) information. Such an index was referred to as the aggregate association index. This paper will further consider some...

The difference, if any, between men's and women's voting patterns is of particular interest to historians of gender and politics. For elections that were held before the introduction of opinion surveying in the 1940s, little data are available with which to estimate such differences. We apply...