Talk:Contingency table

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Please add redirect from here from bivariate tables. ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.135.197.201 (talk) 05:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Why? Which direction? They seem entirely different ideas. Contigency tables always contain counts and there are specific statistc rtechniques relating to these, while a "bivariate tables" is much more general ... for example a usual form of presenting tables of the F-distribution is in the form of a bivariate table , with the two degrees of freedom used to enter the table. Thus some contigency tables (the 2D ones) may be special cases of bivariate tables, and vice versa. Without seeing what might go intobivariate tables even the question of links in one or both directions should be left open for now. Melcombe (talk) 09:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

(Note: I created a redirect from bivariate table before Melcombe's reply above, but couldn't leave a note then due to connection problems.) I don't see the harm in a redirect myself. For at least one meaning, bivariate tables are a special case of contigency tables, and providing the redirect will help the reader. Yes, it would be better to have an article on bivariate tables, or perhaps on statistical tables, that covers all the different meanings, but the redirect will be some use in the meantime. -- Avenue (talk) 18:00, 8 May 2008 (UTC)