NOUN | cognition | fourfold point correlation, phi coefficient, phi correlation | an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female) |
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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). | |
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Synonyms | phi coefficient, phi correlation | |
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 |
Broader | nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic | A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
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