TETRACHORIC CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomy

Synonyms:

tetrachoric correlation; tetrachoric correlation coefficient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tetrachoric correlation coefficient" is a kind of...):

coefficient of correlation; correlation; correlation coefficient (a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation))

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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