background: to seek pleasure is man’s innate nature. in his search for gratification, man has discovered a world of substances that intoxicated him. those who fell within its trap, their life changed, their families aggrieved and they shrank from company. the addiction remained alone in the end. to many death was a relief. methods: a community based cross-sectional study was conducted in the ca...

This paper proposes new non-model based partial/conditional association measures for ordinal contingency table where the main interest is between two variables of interest, adjusting effect covariate(s). We first develop a type scores variables, subcopula scores, taking into account ordering categories and derive regressions describing relationships The proposed are obtained from which uniquely...