PHI COEFFICIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phi coefficient mean? 

• PHI COEFFICIENT (noun)
  The noun PHI COEFFICIENT has 1 sense:

1. an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)

  Familiarity information: PHI COEFFICIENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHI COEFFICIENT (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fourfold point correlation; phi coefficient; phi correlation

Hypernyms ("phi coefficient" is a kind of...):

distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)

Domain 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)