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Hi Folks, I've encountered something I hadn't been consciously aware of previously, and I'm wondering what the explanation might be. In (on another list) using R to demonstrate the difference between different contrasts in 'lm' I set up an example where Y is sampled from three different normal distributions according to the levels ("A","B","C")

I am trying to use Fisher's z' transformation of the Pearson's r but the standard error does not appear to be correct. I have simulated an example using the R code below. The z' data appears to have a reasonably normal distribution but the standard error given by the formula 1/sqrt(N-3) (from http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/A98696.html) gives a different results than sd(z). Can