tetrachoric

adjective

tet·​ra·​cho·​ric

¦te‧trə¦kōrik

: of, relating to, or being a method of statistical correlation between variables that do not admit of exact measurement

Word History

Etymology

tetra- + chori- + -ic; from the correlation involving a fourfold table

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