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A Worksheet for Tetrachoric r and Standard Error of Tetrachoric r using Hayes Diagrams and Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Howard W. Goheen  and
Samuel Kavruck
Howard W. Goheen
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration
Samuel Kavruck
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration
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Abstract

A worksheet simplifying the calculation of tetrachoric correlation coefficients and their standard errors is presented for use with Hayes' percentage difference method.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1948 , pp. 279 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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We wish to thank Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. for his review and helpful suggestions leading to a simplification of the worksheet.

References

Hayes, S. P. Jr.. Diagrams for computing tetrachoric correlation coefficients from percentage differences. Psychometrika, 1946, 11, 163–172.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hayes, S. P. Jr.. Tables of the standard error of tetrachoric correlation coefficients. Psychometrika, 1943, 8, 193–203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar