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polychoric correlation: a standalone construct

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Psychometrics

the estimated correlation between two latent continuous variables assumed to underlie two observed ordinal variables.

In psychometrics, polychoric correlation refers to the estimated correlation between two latent continuous variables assumed to underlie two observed ordinal variables. This meaning comes from Olsson (1979) in Psychometrika.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Olsson, U. (1979). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Polychoric Correlation Coefficient. Psychometrika, 44(4), 443-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02296207

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