Polychoric Correlation Coefficient

The polychoric correlation coefficient, ρ, is used for correlation when the data consist of observations from two ordinal variables, each having an arbitrary number of response categories. Strictly speaking, the polychoric correlation coefficient estimates the correlation between two ...

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