Contingency table
Tabla de contingencia
- Date
- 1904 · confidence high
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Karl Pearson
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A matrix-format table showing the joint frequency distribution of several variables, used to find relationships between them; the term was coined by Karl Pearson in 1904.
What it led to
- Statistical independence tests such as chi-squared
- Pivot tables in spreadsheet software
- Analysis of multivariate dependence structures