Further Models for Estimating Correlation in Discrete Data

Abstract

This note considers the distribution of the sum ofnidentically distributed multinomial variatesXi, the correlation coefficient forXiandXjbeing ρ for alli,j, i≠j.The initial model, withnandp' = (p1,p2,…,pk) fixed, is generalized by allowing firstn, thenpand finally bothnandpto be random variables.