A Note on the Adjustment of Fourfold Tables for "Curvilinearity"
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20285502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman Cliff (aa Educational Testing Service, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 721-724 |
| Publication date | 1962-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational and Psychological Measurement (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1644 • E-ISSN: 1552-3888 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001316446202200405 |
| OpenAlex | W2105910811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
In Psychometric Methods Guilford reports a method of correcting fourfold tables for “curvilinearity” for the purpose of computing tetrachoric correlations. It is pointed out here that the notion of correcting such tables is erroneous in view of the restrictions on the table and the nature of the tetrachoric correlation. It is also demonstrated that the “correction” can, and in common cases will, have a profound effect on the value of the observed correlation
Contingency table · Correlation · Data mining · Econometrics · Geometry · Polychoric correlation · Statistics · Table (database) · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Mental Health Research Topics · Morphological variations and asymmetry
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1964 - 1972 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |