TETRA-COM: A comprehensive SPSS program for estimating the tetrachoric correlation

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1191-1196

  Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a   Ferrando, Pere J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binary variables; Difficulty factor; Factor analysis; Tetrachoric correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870540506     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0200-6     Document Type: Article

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