Date:         Mon, 9 May 2005 12:56:30 -0400
Reply-To:     Agustin Calatroni <acalatr@UMICH.EDU>
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From:         Agustin Calatroni <acalatr@UMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Polyserial Correlation
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Melissa:

The FREQ procedure: "PLCORR = requests the polychoric correlation
coefficient. For 2×2 tables, this statistic is more commonly known as the
tetrachoric correlation coefficient, and it is labeled as such in the
displayed output. [...]"

proc freq data=a;
 table b*c / plcorr;
run;

HTH,


-- Agustin Calatroni

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Melissa
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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:39 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Polyserial Correlation

Does anyone know if it is now possible to do a polyserial correlation in
SAS?  If so, do you have generic code you could share?  Thank you.

Melissa