A nonnormal look at polychoric correlations: modeling the change in correlations before and after discretization

DOI10.1007/S00180-016-0653-7MaRDI QIDQ333373zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hakan Demirtas, Robab Ahmadian, Sema Atis, Fatma Ezgi Can, Ilker Ercan

Publication date 28 October 2016

Published in Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-016-0653-7

zbMATH Keywords

simulationrandom number generationnonnormalitythreshold concept

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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• Mixed data generation packages and related computational tools in R

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Uses Software

• BinOrdNonNor
• PoisNonNor
• GenOrd
• MultiOrd
• BinNonNor

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