It is often considerably easier to obtain the value of the point biserial correlation coefficient for a given set of data than it is to obtain the biserial correlation coefficient. A table is presented that directly converts any known point biserial coefficient to the biserial coefficient providing the largest proportion of the dichotomous variable is also known.
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