Software for Computing the Tetrachoric Correlation Coefficient;Software para el Cómputo del Coeficiente de Correlación Tetracórico

Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Ledesma, Rubén Daniel ^a   Macbeth, Guillermo ^b   Valero Mora, Pedro ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL SALVADOR   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Approximation; Interval estimate; Point estimate; Statistical software; Tetrachoric correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961056776     PISSN: 01200534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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