twocor: Confidence intervals for two-sided tests on correlation...

In WRS2: A Collection of Robust Statistical Methods

Confidence intervals for two-sided tests on correlation coefficients.

Description

The twopcor function tests whether the difference between two Pearson correlations is 0. The twocor function performs the same test on a robust correlation coefficient (percentage bend correlation or Winsorized correlation).

Usage

twopcor(x1, y1, x2, y2, nboot = 599, ...)
twocor(x1, y1, x2, y2, corfun = "pbcor", nboot = 599, tr = 0.2, beta = 0.2, ...)

Arguments

x1	a numeric vector.
y1	a numeric vector.
x2	a numeric vector.
y2	a numeric vector.
nboot	number of bootstrap samples.
corfun	Either "pbcor" for percentage based correlation or "wincor" for Winsorized correlation.
tr	amount of Winsorization.
beta	bending constant.
...	currently ignored.

Details

It is tested whether the first correlation coefficient (based on x1 and y1) equals to the second correlation coefficient (based on x2 and y2). Both approaches return percentile bootstrap CIs.

Value

twopcor and twocor return an object of class "twocor" containing:

r1	robust correlation coefficient
r2	value of the test statistic
ci	confidence interval
p.value	p-value
call	function call

References

Wilcox, R. (2012). Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing (3rd ed.). Elsevier.

See Also

pbcor, wincor

Examples

ct1 <- subset(hangover, subset = (group == "control" & time == 1))$symptoms
ct2 <- subset(hangover, subset = (group == "control" & time == 2))$symptoms
at1 <- subset(hangover, subset = (group == "alcoholic" & time == 1))$symptoms
at2 <- subset(hangover, subset = (group == "alcoholic" & time == 2))$symptoms

set.seed(111)
twopcor(ct1, ct2, at1, at2)
set.seed(123)
twocor(ct1, ct2, at1, at2, corfun = "pbcor", beta = 0.15)
set.seed(224)
twocor(ct1, ct2, at1, at2, corfun = "wincor", tr = 0.15, nboot = 50)

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