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Since 1915, statisticians have been applying Fisher'sZ-transformation to Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients. We offer new geometric interpretations of this transformation.
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Bond, C.F., Richardson, K. Seeing the FisherZ-transformation. Psychometrika 69, 291–303 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295945
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