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A recommendation for applied researchers to substantiate the claim that ordinal variables are the product of underlying bivariate normal distributions

A simulation study was carried out to study the behaviour of the polychoric correlation coefficient in data not compliant with the assumption of underlying continuous variables. Such data can produce relatively high estimated polychoric correlations (in the order of .62). Applied researchers are pro...

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Autores principales: Kampen, Jarl K., Weeren, Arie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28867833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-016-0378-2