Calculation of the Tetrachoric Correlation Coefficient
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 44 (2) , 169-172
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02293968
Abstract
A new subroutine has been developed for calculating the terachoric correlation coefficient. Recent advances in computing inverse normal and bivariate normal distributions have been utilized. The iterative procedure is started with an approximation with an error less than ±.0135.Keywords
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