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Table 8 Bivariate analysis: comparing the relationship significance between each independent variable with the outcome variable—sentiment polarity

From: Text mining and determinants of sentiments: Twitter social media usage by traditional media houses in Uganda

Variable

Test

Degrees of freedom

\(\chi ^2\) value

p value

is_retweet

\(\chi ^2\)test

1

310.38

< 0.05

retweet_count

Anova

1

–

< 0.05

Topic

\(\chi ^2\) test

4

944.14

< 0.05

Source

\(\chi ^2\) test

4

19.749

< 0.05

Media

\(\chi ^2\) test

3

23.347

< 0.05