polychoric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus.
adj
Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable.
noun
A polychoric correlation
Example Sentences
- "The polychoric motets of the Venetian school (Willaert, the Gabrielis, etc., some of whose motets are found in CW vol. 10 and IM vols. 1-2) furnish striking possibilities for multiple brass choirs."
- "The brilliant polychoric canzona has contrasting sections of imitation and homophony; this evolved into the Baroque sonata."
- "Here, a spatial polychoric effect is attained in an acoustical polarity between the deaconesses and missionaries in the "hallelujah corner" and the deacons in the "amen corner," or in churches where the seating arrangement is segregated by gender."
- "2007, Bruno D. Zumbo, 3: Validity: Foundation Issues and Statistical Methodology, C. R. Rao, S. Sinharay (editors), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 26: Psychometrics, page 66, Because the CES-D items are ordinal in nature (i.e., in our case a four-point response scale, and hence not continuous), a polychoric covariance matrix was used as input for the analyses."
- "Socioeconomic status (SES) was represented by a factor score derived using the polychoric method, which is a variation on the principle component analysis procedure designed for use with dichotomous and categorical variables (Kolenikov S, 2004)."
- "The polychoric correlation coefficient is an estimator of the correlation coefficient in the underlying bivariate normal distribution."
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polychoric correlation