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A chance-corrected version of the family of association coefficients for metric scales proposed by Zegers and ten Berge is presented. It is shown that a matrix with chance-corrected coefficients between a number of variables is Gramian. The members of the chance-corrected family are shown to be partially ordered.
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Zegers, F.E. A family of chance-corrected association coefficients for metric scales. Psychometrika 51, 559–562 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295594
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