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Tables of the Standard Error of Tetrachoric Correlation Coefficient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Samuel P. Hayes Jr.
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Abstract

Tables are given for σr√N for the tetrachoric correlation coefficient for the following values of the correlation in the population: .00, ± .10, ± .20, ..., ± .80, ± .90, ± .95.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 1943 , pp. 193 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © 1943 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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In Pearson's original article, x0 was erroneously printed under the radical instead of outside it. The full formula is given correctly in a later article by Pearson (5). In a recent text by Peters and Van Voorhis (9), the full formula is correctly given, but the meanings of β1 and β2 are transposed from their meanings in Pearson's original formula.

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