vcd (version 1.3-2)

SexualFun: Sex is Fun

Description

Data from Hout et al. (1987) given by Agresti (1990) summarizing the responses of married couples to the questionnaire item: Sex is fun for me and my partner: (a) never or occasionally, (b) fairly often, (c) very often, (d) almost always.

Usage

data("SexualFun")

format

A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating the ratings of 91 married couples. The variables and their levels are as follows:

rll{ No Name Levels 1 Husband Never Fun, Fairly Often, Very Often, Always Fun 2 Wife Never Fun, Fairly Often, Very Often, Always Fun }

source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 91.

References

A. Agresti (1990), Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley-Interscience, New York.

M. Hout, O. D. Duncan, M. E. Sobel (1987), Association and heterogeneity: Structural models of similarities and differences, Sociological Methodology, 17, 145-184.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("SexualFun")

## Kappa statistics
Kappa(SexualFun)

## Agreement Chart
agreementplot(t(SexualFun), weights = 1)
## Partial Agreement Chart and B-Statistics
agreementplot(t(SexualFun),
              xlab = "Husband's Rating",
              ylab = "Wife's Rating",
              main = "Husband's and Wife's Sexual Fun")