A Note on the Relationship Between the Phi Coefficient and the Tetrachoric Correlation Under Nonnormal Underlying Distributions

DOI10.1080/00031305.2015.1077161OpenAlexW2343370179WikidataQ58270175 ScholiaQ58270175MaRDI QIDQ5884427

Hakan Demirtas

Publication date: 21 March 2023

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2015.1077161

zbMATH Keywords

simulationrandom number generationdichotomization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

Related Items (3)

A nonnormal look at polychoric correlations: modeling the change in correlations before and after discretization ⋮ Comparison of correlation measures for nominal data ⋮ Mixed data generation packages and related computational tools in R

Uses Software

• BinNonNor
• MultiOrd

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