Various measures of correlation between two quantities x and y are discussed, and it is shown that the phi coefficient is a logically unacceptable measure except perhaps when both x and y are purely qualitative two‐valued attributes. For biserial data, a new measure of correlation is proposed which is free from the shortcomings of the biserial coefficient and the point biserial coefficient.
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Robert G. Chambers (1982) studied this question.