ci.spear2: Confidence interval for a 2-group Spearman correlation...

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Confidence interval for a 2-group Spearman correlation difference

Description

Computes a confidence interval for a difference of population Spearman correlations in a 2-group design.

Usage

ci.spear2(alpha, cor1, cor2, n1, n2)

Arguments

alpha	alpha level for 1-alpha confidence
cor1	estimated Spearman correlation for group 1
cor2	estimated Spearman correlation for group 2
n1	sample size for group 1
n2	sample size for group 2

Value

Returns a 1-row matrix. The columns are:

• Estimate - estimated correlation difference

• SE - standard error

• LL - lower limit of the confidence interval

• UL - upper limit of the confidence interval

References

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Bonett2000statpsych

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Zou2007statpsych

Examples

ci.spear2(.05, .54, .48, 180, 200)

# Should return:
# Estimate         SE         LL        UL
#     0.06 0.08124926 -0.1003977 0.2185085     
 

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