Polychoric

adj, noun

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Noun

1
A polychoric correlation

Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus. not-comparable
"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."
2
Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable. not-comparable
"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."

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From poly- + -choric.

Etymology 2

From pol-y + Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “field”) + -ic.

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