corr_test: Correlation analyses

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Correlation analyses

Description

Parametric, non-parametric, robust, and Bayesian correlation test.

Usage

corr_test(
  data,
  x,
  y,
  type = "parametric",
  digits = 2L,
  conf.level = 0.95,
  tr = 0.2,
  bf.prior = 0.707,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	A data frame (or a tibble) from which variables specified are to be taken. Other data types (e.g., matrix,table, array, etc.) will not be accepted. Additionally, grouped data frames from {dplyr} should be ungrouped before they are entered as data.
x	The column in data containing the explanatory variable to be plotted on the x-axis.
y	The column in data containing the response (outcome) variable to be plotted on the y-axis.
type	A character specifying the type of statistical approach: "parametric" "nonparametric" "robust" "bayes" You can specify just the initial letter.
digits	Number of digits for rounding or significant figures. May also be "signif" to return significant figures or "scientific" to return scientific notation. Control the number of digits by adding the value as suffix, e.g. digits = "scientific4" to have scientific notation with 4 decimal places, or digits = "signif5" for 5 significant figures (see also signif()).
conf.level	Scalar between 0 and 1 (default: ⁠95%⁠ confidence/credible intervals, 0.95). If NULL, no confidence intervals will be computed.
tr	Trim level for the mean when carrying out robust tests. In case of an error, try reducing the value of tr, which is by default set to 0.2. Lowering the value might help.
bf.prior	A number between 0.5 and 2 (default 0.707), the prior width to use in calculating Bayes factors and posterior estimates. In addition to numeric arguments, several named values are also recognized: "medium", "wide", and "ultrawide", corresponding to r scale values of 1/2, sqrt(2)/2, and 1, respectively. In case of an ANOVA, this value corresponds to scale for fixed effects.
...	Additional arguments (currently ignored).

Value

The returned tibble data frame can contain some or all of the following columns (the exact columns will depend on the statistical test):

• statistic: the numeric value of a statistic

• df: the numeric value of a parameter being modeled (often degrees of freedom for the test)

• df.error and df: relevant only if the statistic in question has two degrees of freedom (e.g. anova)

• p.value: the two-sided p-value associated with the observed statistic

• method: the name of the inferential statistical test

• estimate: estimated value of the effect size

• conf.low: lower bound for the effect size estimate

• conf.high: upper bound for the effect size estimate

• conf.level: width of the confidence interval

• conf.method: method used to compute confidence interval

• conf.distribution: statistical distribution for the effect

• effectsize: the name of the effect size

• n.obs: number of observations

• expression: pre-formatted expression containing statistical details

For examples, see data frame output vignette.

Correlation analyses

The table below provides summary about:

• statistical test carried out for inferential statistics

• type of effect size estimate and a measure of uncertainty for this estimate

• functions used internally to compute these details

Hypothesis testing and Effect size estimation

Type	Test	CI available?	Function used
Parametric	Pearson's correlation coefficient	Yes	correlation::correlation()
Non-parametric	Spearman's rank correlation coefficient	Yes	correlation::correlation()
Robust	Winsorized Pearson's correlation coefficient	Yes	correlation::correlation()
Bayesian	Bayesian Pearson's correlation coefficient	Yes	correlation::correlation()

Citation

Patil, I., (2021). statsExpressions: R Package for Tidy Dataframes and Expressions with Statistical Details. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(61), 3236, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03236

Examples

# for reproducibility
set.seed(123)

# ----------------------- parametric -----------------------

corr_test(mtcars, wt, mpg, type = "parametric")

# ----------------------- non-parametric -------------------

corr_test(mtcars, wt, mpg, type = "nonparametric")

# ----------------------- robust ---------------------------

corr_test(mtcars, wt, mpg, type = "robust")

# ----------------------- Bayesian -------------------------

corr_test(mtcars, wt, mpg, type = "bayes")

statsExpressions documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:55 p.m.