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A selection of statistical problems commonly encountered in psychological or psychiatric research concerning correlation coefficients are re-evaluated in the light of recently developed simplifications in the forms of the distribution theory of the intraclass correlation coefficient (exact theory), of the product-moment correlation coefficient and of the Spearman rank correlation coefficient (approximate).
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Kraemer, H.C. On estimation and hypothesis testing problems for correlation coefficients. Psychometrika 40, 473–485 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291550
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