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contingency

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contingency

Synopsis

Builds a contingency table for two fields.

Syntax

contingency [contingency-option]* field field

Arguments

contingency-option
Syntax:
Description:

Description

In statistics, contingency tables are used to record and analyze the relationship between two or more (usually categorical) variables. Many metrics of association or independence can be calculated based on contingency tables, such as the phi coefficient or the V of Cramer.

Examples

Example 1: Build a contingency table of "datafields" from all events.

... | contingency datafield1 datafield2 maxrows=5 maxcols=5 usetotal=F

Example 2: Build a contingency table for fields "host" and "sourcetype".

... | contingency host sourcetype


See also

associate, correlate[Category:Assist]]

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10 , 4.0.11 View the Article History for its revisions.


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