Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tetrachoric_correlation

1 sense of tetrachoric correlation

Sense 1
tetrachoric correlation coefficient, tetrachoric correlation -- (a correlation coefficient computed for two normally distributed variables that are both expressed as a dichotomy)
       => correlation coefficient, coefficient of correlation, correlation -- (a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation); "what is the correlation between those two variables?")