Dichotomization, Partial Correlation, and Conditional Independence

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 264-282

  Vargha, András ^a   Rudas, Tamás ^a   Delaney, Harold D ^b   Maxwell, Scott E ^c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Dichotomization; Median splits; Partial correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030519338     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986021003264     Document Type: Article

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