cor0.test: Test of the correlation coefficient

In TRSbook: Functions and Datasets to Accompany the Book "The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis"

Description

Test of the correlation coefficient between two quantitative variables

Usage

cor0.test(x, y, rho0 = 0, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"))

Arguments

x	numeric vector
y	numeric vector
rho0	numeric indicating the value of the correlation coefficient under the null. Default is rho0 = 0
alternative	Alternative hypothesis for the test. Either two sided ("two.sided"), one sided to the left ("less") or one sided to the right ("greater"). Default is "two.sided".

Value

Returns a list:

statistic	Value of the test statistic
p.value	p-value of the test

Author(s)

Lafaye de Micheaux Pierre <[e-mail]>, Remy Drouilhet <[e-mail]>, Liquet Benoit <[e-mail]>

References

Chapter 13 (Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing) from the book: The R Software, Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis

See Also

cor.test

Examples

data(BMI.CHILD)
attach(BMI.CHILD)
cor0.test(weight,height)
detach(BMI.CHILD)

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