A general family of association coefficients

Two classes of element-wise transformations are proved to preserve the positive semi-definite nature of coefficient matrices. The correctness of a conjecture by Gower and Legendre on the positive semi-definite nature of a certain coefficient matrix is proved. It is shown that the matrix of monotonicity coefficients proposed by Bentler is positive semi-definite for data without ties.

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