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Danang Qoyyimi
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2015
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Mathematical Statistics
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Measuring association, or the lack of it, between variables plays an important role in a variety of research areas, including education, which is of our primary interest in this paper. Given, for example, student marks on several study subjects, we may for a number of reasons be interested in measuring the lack of co-monotonicity (LOC) between the marks, which rarely follow monotone, let alone linear, patterns. For this purpose, in this paper we explore a novel approach based on a LOC index, which is related to, yet substantially different from, Eckhard Liebschers recently suggested coefficient of monotonically increasing dependence. To illustrate the new technique, we analyze a data-set of student marks on mathematics, reading and spelling.
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