XCANON: A BASIC Program for Canonical Analysis of Contingency Tables

Pearson χ 2 analysis of contingency tables is a widely used data-analytic method in the behavioral sciences, but provides relatively little information about the underlying nature of the relationship between categorical variables beyond the value of χ 2 and several alternative measures of association. The advantage of the canonical analysis approach is the greater breadth of information available for interpretation of results than is obtained from the standard analysis. XCANON is a BASIC program written to perform these analyses in either CP/M or MS-DOS microcomputer environments