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Wolfle, Lee M.; Ethington, Corinna A. – 1985
The purpose of this paper is to examine the validity of regression estimates when skewed dichotomous scales are used as independent variables. When Pearson product-moment correlations are used to measure zero-order associations involving dichotomous variables, the resulting coefficients underestimate the true associations. As a result, using…
Descriptors: Correlation, Estimation (Mathematics), Matrices, Multiple Regression Analysis