Silverstone, Brian; Mitchell, James - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2005
confidence
business surveys
polychoric correlation
New Zealand
JEL Classification
E32
Acknowledgements … analytical tool is polychoric
correlation.
POLYCHORIC CORRELATION
If we had quantitative data on business confidence, and … responses. (See, for
example, Goodman and Kruskal 1963).
The idea behind polychoric correlation is that the bivariate …