R help - Aug 2004 - Test of significance in estimation of correlation coefficients

I estimated spearman's correlation coefficient using cor(). How do I 
test for significance?

Vikas

On 08/24/04 15:05, Vikas Rawal wrote:
>I estimated spearman's correlation coefficient using cor(). How do I
>test for significance?
cor.test

You could find this many ways, but one is to look at the help
document for cor.  cor.test is listed is at the bottom.  In
general, it is a good idea to look at help before posting here.

BTW, there is a small bug in the documentation for cor: cor.test
is no longer in the ctest package, but in stats.

Jon
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> BTW, there is a small bug in the documentation for cor: cor.test
> is no longer in the ctest package, but in stats.
Your information is not up to date: that page has been changed in
R-patched and R-devel. 

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