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Arrrrr, I think I've found a bug in the behavior of the stats::cor function when NAs are present, but in case I'm missing something, could you look over this example and let me know what you think: > a = c(1,3,NA,1,2) > b = c(1,2,1,1,4) > cor(a,b,method="spearman", use="complete.obs") [1] 0.8164966 > cor(a,b,method="spearman",

Hi, I have a dataset with four categories of data, the number of samples are not the same in each category. I want to find the Spearaman's Rho. Let me give an example. x=(14.22770439,26.49420624,46.7277932,19.02550707,23.37379361,16.97789862,19.77100085,23.11270162,13.72929843,33.54430621,14.4756979,70.15811106,11.22789833,NA,NA,NA)

Hallo! Is there an error in cor to calculate Spearman correlation with cor if there are NA's? cor.test gives the correct result. At least there is a difference. Or am I doing something wrong??? Does anybody know something about this? a<-c(2,4,3,NA) b<-c(4,1,2,3) cor(a, b, method="spearman", use="complete.obs") # -0.9819805 cor.test(a, b,

Full_Name: Vladimir Obolonkin Version: tested in 2.0 to 2.4.1 OS: linux, win, mac Submission from: (NULL) (202.14.96.194) {{ Subject shortened manually -- to pass anti-spam filters Original-subject: Incorrect matrix of spearman correlations working \ large (24000 by 425 and 78 by 425 data frames) in 64-bit Linux machines;\ the same code gives correct results in 32-bits Win and

Full_Name: David Simcha Version: 2.10 OS: Windows XP Home Submission from: (NULL) (173.3.208.5) > a <- c(1:10) > b <- c(1:10) > cor.test(a, b, method = "spearman", alternative = "greater", exact = TRUE) Spearman's rank correlation rho data: a and b S = 0, p-value < 2.2e-16 alternative hypothesis: true rho is greater than 0 sample estimates:

Greetings. There seems to be a problem with the P-value computation in the cor.test with method="spearman". In R1.8.0 (MS Windows) I seem to be getting intermittently nonsense P-values, but the rho's are OK. I can get this reproducibly with the toy example attached where the first use is OK and subsequent calls with the same data give nonsense. (I have also seen the problem

Full_Name: Petr Savicky Version: 2.7.2, 2.8.1, 2.9.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (147.231.6.9) The p-value of Spearman's rank correlation test is calculated in cor.test(x, y, method="spearman") using algorithm AS 89. However, the way how AS 89 is used incures error, which may be an order of magnitude larger than the error of the original algorithm. The paper, which

Odd behaviour of function cor() in R-2.10.1-64bit-Unix In a dataset with 1366 patients and 244 clinical variables Spearman's Rho was calculated for some fatty acids and BMI and came over something rather odd: R seems to calculate Rho differently on 2.10.1-64bit-Unix and 2.9.0-32bit-Windows when I calculate the complete (244x244) correlation matrix and then pick out the values I am

Hi all, I'm not quite sure if this is a feature or a bug or if I just fail to understand the documentation: If I use cor() with pairwise.complete.obs and method=pearson, the result is a scalar: ->cor(c(1,2,3),c(3,4,6),use="pairwise.complete.obs",method="pearson") [1] 0.9819805 The documentation says that " '"pairwise.complete.obs"' only

Dear HelpeRs, I have some data: "ice" <- structure(c(0.386, 0.374, 0.393, 0.425, 0.406, 0.344, 0.327, 0.288, 0.269, 0.256, 0.286, 0.298, 0.329, 0.318, 0.381, 0.381, 0.47, 0.443, 0.386, 0.342, 0.319, 0.307, 0.284, 0.326, 0.309, 0.359, 0.376, 0.416, 0.437, 0.548, 41, 56, 63, 68, 69, 65, 61, 47, 32, 24, 28, 26, 32, 40, 55, 63, 72, 72, 67, 60, 44, 40, 32, 27, 28, 33,

Hi All: help(cor.test) claims For Spearman's test, p-values are computed using algorithm AS 89. Algorithm AS 89 was introduced by the paper D. J. Best & D. E. Roberts (1975), Algorithm AS 89: The Upper Tail Probabilities of Spearman's rho. Applied Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 3, 377-379. Table 1(a) in this paper presents maximum absolute error |\Delta_m|, of the approximation for

Dear R maintainers, R is great. Now that I have that out of the way, I believe I have encountered a bug, or at least an inconsistency, in how Spearman and Kendall rank correlations are handled. Specifically, cor() and cor.test() do not produce the same answer when the data contain NAs. cor() treats the NAs as data, while cor.test() eliminates them. The option use="complete.obs" has

Hi. I am currently trying to run some Spearman correlations, and have encountered two issues. 1) When using cor.test() with a variable that includes ties, I get the "Cannot compute exact p-values with ties" error. I have read that this function now uses an asymptotic formula that allows for ties, so do not understand why I am getting this error. (I am running version 2.4.0.) I

Hello, Is there a way to extract output objects from a stats test without viewing the entire output? I am trying to do so in the following: define a vector of length j for( i in 1: length (vector)) { vector[i] = cor.test (datavector1, datavector2[i], method=("spearman")) } I would like the reported Spearman's rho to be saved in a vector. I have tried a few different ways of

Dear R developers: There is a possible bug in calculating the p-value for Spearman's rank correlation. Line 155 in file R-patched/src/library/stats/R/cor.test.R is as.double(round(q) + lower.tail), I think, it should be as.double(round(q) + 2*lower.tail), The reason is that round(q) is expected to be an even number (the S statistic), so the next feasible value is round(q)+2.

Full_Name: Marek Ancukiewicz Version: 1.8.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (132.183.12.87) Function cor() incorrectly handles missing observation with method="spearman": > x <- c(1,2,3,NA,5,6) > y <- c(4,NA,2,5,1,3) > cor(x,y,use="complete.obs",method="s") [1] -0.1428571 >

Hello R gurus, I want to calculate the Spearman rho between two ranked lists. I am getting results with cor.test that differ in comparison to my own spearman function: > my.spearman function(l1, l2) { if(length(l1) != length(l2)) stop("lists must have same length") r1 <- rank(l1) r2 <- rank(l2) dsq <- sapply(r1-r2,function(x) x^2) 1 - ((6 * sum(dsq))

Full_Name: Ian Wilson Version: R-1.8.0 OS: Windows (but own compilation) Submission from: (NULL) (139.133.7.38) the p-value is incorrect for cor.test using method "spearman" in R-1.8.0. This was not the case in R-1.7.1. Version R-1.8.0 on Windows > cor.test(rnorm(50),rnorm(50),method="spearman") Spearman's rank correlation rho data: rnorm(50) and rnorm(50) S

vobolonkin at lic.co.nz wrote: > Full_Name: Vladimir Obolonkin > Version: tested in 2.0 to 2.4.1 > OS: linux, win, mac > Submission from: (NULL) (202.14.96.194) > > {{ Subject shortened manually -- to pass anti-spam filters > > Original-subject: Incorrect matrix of spearman correlations working \ > large (24000 by 425 and 78 by 425 data frames) in 64-bit Linux

Hi, all. Yet another beginner to R : ) I wonder, how it's possible to get the value of a coefficient from the object produced by cor.test() ? > cor.test(a, b, method="spearman") Spearman's rank correlation rho data: a and b S = 21554.28, p-value = 2.496e-11 alternative hypothesis: true rho is not equal to 0 sample estimates: rho 0.6807955 Warning message: In