Interval estimation for rank correlation coefficients based on the probit transformation with extension to measurement error correction of correlated ranked data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 633-646

  Rosner, Bernard ^a   Glynn, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcsin transformation; Kendall's tau; Nutritional epidemiology; Probit scores; Regression dilution bias; Spearman correlation

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NURSE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDITY; VITAMIN INTAKE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIET RECORDS; EATING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33846445718     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2547     Document Type: Article

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