ISO/TR 16705:2016描述了列联表分析的必要步骤，以及分析分类变量（包括名义变量和顺序变量）之间关系的方法。 它提供了列联表分析的示例。几个不同领域的插图以不同的重点介绍了使用不同软件应用进行列联表分析的过程。 在ISO/TR 16705:2016中，仅考虑二维列联表。

ISO/TR 16705:2016 describes the necessary steps for contingency table analysis and the method to analyse the relation between categorical variables (including nominal variables and ordinal variables). It provides examples of contingency table analysis. Several illustrations from different fields with different emphasis suggest the procedures of contingency table analysis using different software applications. In ISO/TR 16705:2016, only two-dimensional contingency tables are considered.