Re: [R] Significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients

2010-12-02 Thread Norm Matloff
Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: Using the info from that website, I can code up the following to give the two-tailed p-value of difference in correlations: diff.corr - function( r1, n1, r2, n2 ){ ... William Revelle also mentioned the r.test in the psych package. I would add here that

[R] Significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients

2010-11-29 Thread syrvn
Hi, based on the sample size I want to calculate whether to correlation coefficients are significantly different or not. I know that as a first step both coefficients have to be converted to z values using fisher's z transformation. I have done this already but I dont know how to further proceed

Re: [R] Significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients

2010-11-29 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Thanks for providing the example but it would be useful to know who I am communicating with or from which institute, but nevermind ... I don't know much about this subject but a quick google search gives me the following site: http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/A50760.html Using the info from

Re: [R] Significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients

2010-11-29 Thread syrvn
Hi, thanks a lot. that's what i tried to figure out! it works great and is exactly what i need. Best, syrvn -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Significance-of-the-difference-between-two-correlation-coefficients-tp3063765p3063997.html Sent from the R help mailing

Re: [R] Significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients

2010-11-29 Thread William Revelle
At 5:02 PM + 11/29/10, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: Thanks for providing the example but it would be useful to know who I am communicating with or from which institute, but nevermind ... I don't know much about this subject but a quick google search gives me the following site: