The Use of a Generalized Multinomial Distribution in the Estimation of Correlation in Discrete Data
G. M. Tallis · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1962
SUMMARY This paper presents a joint distribution for n identically distributed multinomial variates, Xq. The distribution is constructed so that C(Xq, Xr) = pV(X) for all q and r, q≠r, and applications of this model to the estimation of correlation in discrete data are discussed.