Distributions of correlation coefficients hoben thomas auth an important problem in personnel psychology namely the psychometric problem known as validity generalization is addressed in this volume from a statistical point of view the problem is how to make statements about a population correlation coefficient based on inferences from a . Distributions of correlation coefficients authors thomas hoben free preview buy this book ebook 8880 eur is how to make statements about a population correlation coefficient based on inferences from a collection of sample correlation coefficients the first part of the book examines the largely ad hoc procedures which have been used to . An important problem in personnel psychology namely the psychometric problem known as validity generalization is addressed in this volume from a statistical point of view the problem is how to make statements about a population correlation coefficient based on inferences from a collection of sample correlation coefficients. Distribution of the correlation coefficient under the usual null hypothesis of statistical theory that the expected correlation is zero it is known that estimates of the coefficients inl linear autoregressive models may be obtained by correlation techniques and that properties of such models