On the estimation of polychoric correlations and their asymptotic covariance matrix

DOI10.1007/BF02296131zbMath0830.62059OpenAlexW2019837960MaRDI QIDQ1901351

Karl G. Jöreskog

Publication date: 25 January 1996

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02296131

zbMATH Keywords

thresholdsmaximum likelihoodcontingency tablesasymptotic covariance matrixordinal variablescomputational aspectspolychoric correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Point estimation (62F10) Contingency tables (62H17)

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Uses Software

• LISREL
• PRELIS

Cites Work

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• Pseudo maximum likelihood estimation: The asymptotic distribution
• Maximum likelihood estimation of multivariate polyserial and polychoric correlation coefficients
• Maximum likelihood estimation of the polychoric correlation coefficient
• The asymptotic effect of substituting estimators for parameters in certain types of statistics
• Two-step estimation of multivariate polychoric correlation

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