biserial correlation

1. 1.

   a correlation coefficient in which one variable is many-valued and the other is dichotomous

   Synonymsbiserial correlation coefficient

   Broadercorrelation coefficient

   statistics

Questions about biserial correlation

What does biserial correlation mean?

biserial correlation means "a correlation coefficient in which one variable is many-valued and the other is dichotomous".

What is another word for biserial correlation?

Close synonyms include biserial correlation coefficient. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is biserial correlation a common word?

biserial correlation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.