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On Estimation and Hypothesis Testing Problems for Correlation Coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Helena Chmura Kraemer*
Affiliation:
Stanford Medical School

Abstract

A selection of statistical problems commonly encountered in psychological or psychiatric research concerning correlation coefficients are re-evaluated in the light of recently developed simplifications in the forms of the distribution theory of the intraclass correlation coefficient (exact theory), of the product-moment correlation coefficient and of the Spearman rank correlation coefficient (approximate).

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Helena Chmura Kraemer is Associate Professor of Biostat, istics in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, California 94305.

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