polychoric

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus.
 * 2)  Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable.
 * 3) * 2007, Bruno D. Zumbo, 3: Validity: Foundation Issues and Statistical Methodology, C. R. Rao, S. Sinharay (editors), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 26: Psychometrics, page 66,
 * Because the CES-D items are ordinal in nature (i.e., in our case a four-point response scale, and hence not continuous), a polychoric covariance matrix was used as input for the analyses.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable.
 * 2) * 2007, Bruno D. Zumbo, 3: Validity: Foundation Issues and Statistical Methodology, C. R. Rao, S. Sinharay (editors), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 26: Psychometrics, page 66,
 * Because the CES-D items are ordinal in nature (i.e., in our case a four-point response scale, and hence not continuous), a polychoric covariance matrix was used as input for the analyses.

Usage notes
The statistics term occurs chiefly in the collocation.

Translations

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Noun

 * 1) A polychoric correlation