Estimating correlation from dichotomized normal variables

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3785-3794

  Genest, Christian ^a   Lévesque, Jean Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivariate normality; Continuous scores; Copula; Dichotomization; Pearson's correlation; Tetrachoric correlation coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149155528     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.05.031     Document Type: Article

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