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The x-axis is the number of discrete categorical scores (k) and the y-axis shows the correlation (R k) between the observed categorical score (Y) and the underlying continuous score (u). The correlation R k is calculated under three scenarios defined by the variance (σ 2 s) of the distribution of underlying scores. The grey horizontal line denotes a correlation of 0.95 or 0.99.
