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Correlational Analysis of Ordinal Data: From Pearson's "r" to Bayesian Polychoric Correlation
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Choi, Jaehwa; Peters, Michelle; Mueller, Ralph O. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
Correlational analyses are one of the most popular quantitative methods, yet also one of the mostly frequently misused methods in social and behavioral research, especially when analyzing ordinal data from Likert or other rating scales. Although several correlational analysis options have been developed for ordinal data, there seems to be a lack…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Item Response Theory, Correlation, Behavioral Science Research