Computing the Point-biserial Correlation under Any Underlying Continuous Distribution

DOI10.1080/03610918.2014.920883zbMath1346.62056OpenAlexW2143905719MaRDI QIDQ2821040

Hakan Demirtas, Donald R. Hedeker

Publication date: 16 September 2016

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2014.920883

zbMATH Keywords

sortingsimulationdichotomization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40)

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