[R] test to compare significant correlation increase

2007-05-30 Thread David Riano
Hi! I am calculating correlation between two variables: 1. X versus Y 2. X versus Y(with a 3 steps lag) I would like to test if the correlation increase/decrease from 1 to 2 is significant or not. Is there any function in R to do this? any hints? Thanks for help :) David RiaƱo Center for

Re: [R] test to compare significant correlation increase

2007-05-30 Thread Mike Lawrence
Just a guess (please correct if I'm way off on this), but maybe you could look at the difference in r betwen 1 2 and see if the confidence interval (http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/B8544.html) for this value given your sample size includes 0. On 30-May-07, at 11:24 AM, David Riano wrote:

Re: [R] test to compare significant correlation increase

2007-05-30 Thread Jonathan Baron
In response to the original message, see http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/85753.html which describes two papers about comparing dependent correlations, which I think is a relevant question. (Try Google too. I didn't.) There is also a paper by Steiger in Psychological Bulletin,