PHI CORRELATION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)

Synonyms:

fourfold point correlation; phi coefficient; phi correlation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("phi correlation" is a kind of...):

distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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