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On determining the reliability and significance of a tetrachoric coefficient of correlation

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In this note are presented facilitating tables for the estimation of the standard error of a tetrachoricγ and also tables providing significant and very significant tetrachoric coefficients for various sizes of samples and various combinations of proportions in the dichotomized distributions.

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  1. University of Southern California, USA

    J. P. Guilford & Thoburn C. Lyons

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The task of computing the values in the accompanying tables should be credited to Mr. Lyons.

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Guilford, J.P., Lyons, T.C. On determining the reliability and significance of a tetrachoric coefficient of correlation. Psychometrika 7, 243–249 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02288627

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