Table 3.

Parameter estimates and standard error estimates ( $\widehat{\text{SE}}$ ) for the correlation between the continuous variable stateanx and the ordinal variable epilie (with $r=7$ response options) in the data of Revelle (2025), using the robust estimator with $\alpha =0.5$ and the MLE

Table 3 long description.

		Robust			ML
Parameter		Estimate	$\widehat{\text{SE}}$		Estimate	$\widehat{\text{SE}}$
$\rho$		$-0.107$	0.076		$-0.142$	0.067
$\mu$		37.990	0.615		39.842	0.900
${\sigma }^2$		107.730	10.280		131.575	14.485
${\tau }_1$		$-1.359$	0.120		$-1.358$	0.118
${\tau }_2$		$-0.586$	0.091		$-0.604$	0.088
${\tau }_3$		0.276	0.085		0.276	0.084
${\tau }_4$		0.828	0.096		0.841	0.094
${\tau }_5$		1.268	0.116		1.286	0.116
${\tau }_6$		1.849	0.152		1.771	0.152