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The present note illustrates the application of Lancaster & Hamdan's 1964 polychoric series method for estimating the correlation coefficient in contingency tables. A simple format for the calculations involved, using a desk calculator, is suggested and hence applied to a specific 3 × 3 contingency table.
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