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PHI COEFFICIENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)
Synonyms:
fourfold point correlation; phi coefficient; phi correlation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("phi coefficient" is a kind of...):
distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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