Ogasawara, Haruhiko - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 101 (2010) 4, pp. 936-948
Accurate distributions of the estimator of the tetrachoric correlation coefficient and, more generally, functions of sample proportions for the 2 by 2 contingency table are derived. The results are obtained given the definitions of the estimators even when some marginal cell(s) are empty. Then,...