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TETRACHORIC CORRELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tetrachoric correlation mean? 

TETRACHORIC CORRELATION (noun)
  The noun TETRACHORIC CORRELATION has 1 sense:

1. a correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomyplay

  Familiarity information: TETRACHORIC CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TETRACHORIC CORRELATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

tetrachoric correlation; tetrachoric correlation coefficient

Hypernyms ("tetrachoric correlation" 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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