Re: [R] Polychoric and tetrachoric correlation

2008-09-03 Thread Andy Fugard
Dear John, Yes, that's great - thanks! Andy John Fox wrote: Dear Andy, Yes, the tetrachoric correlation is a special case of the polychoric correlation when both factors are dichotomous. The 95-percent confidence interval that you suggest might be adequate if the sample size is

Re: [R] Polychoric and tetrachoric correlation

2008-09-02 Thread John Fox
Dear Andy, Yes, the tetrachoric correlation is a special case of the polychoric correlation when both factors are dichotomous. The 95-percent confidence interval that you suggest might be adequate if the sample size is sufficiently large and the correlation isn't too close to 0 or 1, but it is

[R] Polychoric and tetrachoric correlation

2008-09-01 Thread Andy Fugard
Hi there, Am I correct to believe that tetrachoric correlation is a special case of polychoric correlation when there are only two levels to the ordered factor? Thus it should be okay to use hetcor from the polycor package to build a matrix of correlations for binary variables? If this is