On Measures of Monotone Association

A family of coefficients for measuring monotone association is presented.These include measures of association of ordinal or interval variables such as gamma of Goodman and Kruskal, Somers's dyx , Kendall's tau, or Spearman's rho as special cases.The article shows how a large number of measures of association can be put into a single general form.These coefficients are used as a basis for defining a variety of data analysis techniques.