I am currently finishing my bachelors thesis and have a couple of questions regarding correlation in spss. I have a questionnaire that generates metric data, nominal data and ordinal data. I used Spearman to correlate all the ordinal datasets and I am quite comfortable that this is fine. Now comes the hard part: How do I correlate the metric data with my ordinal data? Metric data consists of age and kilomenters driven per year. Ordinal data consists of "agree", "agree partly", "neither agree nor disagree", "disagree partly", "disagree". Is it possible to turn my metric data into ordinal data with 3 values (e.g. "young", "middle aged", "old" and then use spearmen to correlate it to the other ordinal data with spearman?  Additionally I would like to ask how I can correlate the ordinal data with the nominal data (being "yes" and "no")? Unfortunately I don't have any idea on how to do that.
I've already read all the pages in this site trying to find the answer to my problem but no one seems to be the right one form me...  First I explain you the kind of data I'm working with...  Let's say that I have an array vector with several names of city, one for each of 300 users. I also have another array vector with scores response to a survey of each user or a continuous value for each user.  I would like to know if exist a correlation coefficient that compute the correlation between these two variables so, between a nominal and a numeric/continuous or ordinal variables.  I've searched on the Internet and in some pages they suggest to use the contingency coefficient or Cramer's V or Lambda coefficient or Eta . For each of this measure the just say that they could be applied for such data in which we have a nominal variable and interval or numerical variable. The thing is that searching and searching, trying to understand every one of them, sometime is written or watching the examples that they are reasonable to use them if you have dichotomous nominal variable, except for Cramer's V, other time is not written any requirement for the type of data. A lot of other pages say that is right to apply regression instead, that is right, but I would just simply like to know if there is a coefficient like pearson/spearman for this kind of data.  I also think that is no so properly to use Spearman Correlation coeff since the cities are not sortable.  I have also built the function of Cramer'sV and Eta by myself (I'm working with Matlab) but for Eta they don't talk about any p-value to see if the coefficient is statistically significant...  In the matlabWorks site there is also a nice toolbox that says to compute eta^2 but the kind of input it needs is not understandable.  Is here someone that have done a test like mine? If you need more detail to understand the kind of data I'm using just ask me and I'll try to explain you better.
Most properties of a single binary operation can be easily read of from the operation's table. For example, given $$\begin{array}{c|ccccc} \cdot &amp; a &amp; b &amp; c &amp; d &amp; e\\\hline a     &amp; e &amp; d &amp; b &amp; a &amp; c\\ b     &amp; d &amp; c &amp; e &amp; b &amp; a\\ c     &amp; b &amp; e &amp; a &amp; c &amp; d\\ d     &amp; a &amp; b &amp; c &amp; d &amp; e\\ e     &amp; c &amp; a &amp; d &amp; e &amp; b \end{array}$$ it is easy to check that it is closed (no elements occur in the table which don't occur as row or column index), commutative (the table is symmetric), has a neutral element (the row and column of $d$ are copies of the index row/column), and has an inverse element for each element (there's a $d$ in each row and column). In other words, almost all important properties can immediately be seen. The only part missing is associativity.  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