cor_test: Test for Vanishing Partial Correlations

In causalDisco: Tools for Causal Discovery on Observational Data

Test for Vanishing Partial Correlations

Description

This function simply calls the pcalg::gaussCItest() function from the pcalg package.

Usage

cor_test(x, y, conditioning_set, suff_stat)

Arguments

x	Index of x variable.
y	Index of y variable.
conditioning_set	Index vector of conditioning variable(s), possibly NULL.
suff_stat	Sufficient statistic; A list with two elements, "C" and "n", corresponding to the correlation matrix and number of observations.

Value

A numeric, which is the p-value of the test.

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