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Hi, Is there any R library/package that calculates tetrachoric correlations from given marginals and Pearson correlations among ordinal variables? Inputs to polychor function in polycor package are either contingency tables or ordinal data themselves. I am looking for something that takes marginal distributions and Pearson correlation as inputs. For example, Y1=(1,2,3) with P(Y1=1)=0.3,