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statpsych (version 1.7.0)

ci.tetra: Confidence interval for a tetrachoric correlation

Description

Computes a confidence interval for an approximation to the tetrachoric correlation. This function requires the frequency counts from a 2 x 2 contingency table for two dichotomous variables. This measure of association assumes both of the dichotomous variables are artificially dichotomous. An approximate standard error is recovered from the confidence interval.

Usage

ci.tetra(alpha, f00, f01, f10, f11)

Value

Returns a 1-row matrix. The columns are:

  • Estimate - estimate of tetrachoric approximation

  • SE - recovered standard error

  • LL - lower limit of the confidence interval

  • UL - upper limit of the confidence interval

Arguments

alpha

alpha level for 1-alpha confidence

f00

number of participants with y = 0 and x = 0

f01

number of participants with y = 0 and x = 1

f10

number of participants with y = 1 and x = 0

f11

number of participants with y = 1 and x = 1

References

Bonett2005statpsych

Examples

Run this code
ci.tetra(.05, 46, 15, 54, 85)

# Should return:
#  Estimate         SE        LL        UL
# 0.5135167 0.09301703 0.3102345 0.6748546


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