If the nonmetric variables are nominal and numeric,Spearman's rho and Kendall's tau are two measures of nonmetric correlation that can be used to examine the correlation between them.

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Spearman's rho and Kendall's tau are measures of rank correlation and are used for ordinal data, not for nominal data which does not have a meaningful order.

If the Nonmetric Variables Are Nominal and Numeric,Spearman's Rho and Kendall's