Saturday, 17 October 2009

Chapter 6: Error in the formula for phi

Page 63 contains a footnote where I give the formula for the phi coefficient. Unfortunately, the denominator mixes up products and sums, so is incorrect. The correct formula should be:

phi = ad - bc / SQRT [(a + b) x (c + d) x (a + c) x (b + d)]

I'm grateful to John van den Bercken for pointing this out.

David