Contributions to the Theory of Measures of Association for Ordinal Variables
In this thesis, we consider measures of association for ordinal variables from a theoretical perspective. In particular, we study the phi-coefficient, the tetrachoric correlation coefficient and the polychoric correlation coefficient. We also introduce a new measure of association for ordinal variab...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Statistik
2009
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-100735 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-7498-0 |