Comparing Two Groups: One Continuous, One Categorical Variable
Correlation is a technique and a term reserved for the covariation between two numerical variables. We might wonder, for example, about how the variability of a continuous measurement differs across groups. For example, how does maternal mortality vary in different parts of the world?
Select Analyze → Distribution. Select the Region and MortMaternal columns to create graphs of the two univariate distributions (no illustrations this time; you are on your own). Just as we've done in the prior two sections, select bars within each graph to see what patterns you can observe.
Select Analyze → Fit Y by X. Select MortMaternal as the Y column and Region as X and click OK.
In the resulting ...
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