A nonnormal look at polychoric correlations: modeling the change in correlations before and after discretization

DOI10.1007/s00180-016-0653-7zbMath1348.65020OpenAlexW2299123649WikidataQ57725160 ScholiaQ57725160MaRDI QIDQ333373

Hakan Demirtas, Fatma Ezgi Can, Robab Ahmadian, Ilker Ercan, Sema Atis

Publication date: 28 October 2016

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-016-0653-7

zbMATH Keywords

simulationrandom number generationnonnormalitythreshold concept

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

Related Items (1)

Mixed data generation packages and related computational tools in R

Uses Software

• BinNonNor
• MultiOrd
• GenOrd
• PoisNonNor
• BinOrdNonNor

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