On the correlation of a naturally and an artificially dichotomized variable

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-251

  Ulrich, Rolf ^a   Wirtz, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 8844270966     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/0007110042307203     Document Type: Article

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