Determination of Joint Distributions from Marginal Distributions in Dichotomous Systems
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 35 (4) , 439-454
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02291819
Abstract
In many areas of research in which the experimenter deals with a set of dichotomous dimensions it is often desirable to specify them in terms of marginal distributions and some conditional distributions. This paper develops a set of systematic procedures for determination of joint distributions with an arbitrary number of dimensions. Most of these procedures require only addition and/or subtraction. An extension of the procedures permits easy determination of covariance and correlation matrices.Keywords
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