Question

A study looks at the relationship between years of educational preparation, language spoken, age, primary nursing role, race and ethnicity, and a total score on a cultural competency examination among a group of 987 randomly selected nurses at your hospital. What test would be appropriate to determine if there was an association?

Answer 1

Chi square test for measure of association is appropriate for testing if there was relationship between various attributes like( years of educational preparation, language spoken,age, primary nursing role,race and ethnicity, and a total score on a cultural competency examination) or not.

As the measures of association measure the strength and direction of relationship between variables ,these measures of association can be described in several ways depending on the analysis.