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A Family of Chance-Corrected Association Coefficients for Metric Scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frits E. Zegers
Frits E. Zegers*
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
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Requests for reprints should be sent to Frits E. Zegers, University of Groningen, Department of Psychology, Grote Markt 3t/32, 9712 HV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS.
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Abstract

A chance-corrected version of the family of association coefficients for metric scales proposed by Zegers and ten Berge is presented. It is shown that a matrix with chance-corrected coefficients between a number of variables is Gramian. The members of the chance-corrected family are shown to be partially ordered.

Keywords

association coefficientmetric scaleproduct-moment correlation
Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 559 - 562
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

The author is obliged to Jos ten Berge for helpful comments.

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