The use of the tetrachoric implies assumption of underlying
(unassessed) normal distribution. I don't know if there are cases
where the phi would outperform the tetrachoric (or on what standards
one would evaluate performance) if the tetrachoic assumptions were
wrong, but I would be interested in knowing...
bill magee
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