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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

Hi, we are trying to do structural equation modelling on R. However, one of our predictor variables is categorical (smoker/nonsmoker). Now, if we want to run the sem() command (from the sem library), we need to specify a covariance matrix (cov). However, Pearson's correlation does not work on the dichotomous variable, so instead we produced a covariance matrix using the Spearman's (or

I can't hardly accept the result of cor function with pairwize.colplete.obs or complete.obs insert print statements in cor function, + if (method != "pearson") { + Rank <- function(u) if (is.matrix(u)) + apply(u, 2, rank, na.last = "keep") + else rank(u, na.last = "keep") + x <- Rank(x) +

i can see source code of function > cor function (x, y = NULL, use = "everything", method = c("pearson", "kendall", "spearman")) { na.method <- pmatch(use, c("all.obs", "complete.obs", "pairwise.complete.obs", "everything", "na.or.complete"))

> library(Kendall) > Kendall(1:3,1:3) WARNING: Error exit, tauk2. IFAULT = 12 <<<<<< tau = 1, 2-sided pvalue =1 I believe Kendall tau is well-defined for this case and the reported value is correct; isn't it a bug to give a warning? (And if, e.g., the pvalue is not well-defined in this case, wouldn't it be better to return NA or NaN or something?) Also,

Hi all, I apologize for the ignorance implicit in this question, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how R functions work. For example, if I wanted to write a function to compute a variance, I would do something like >my.var <- function(x) (sum(((x-mean(x)))^2))/(length(((x-mean(x))) ^2)-1) And this seems to work, e.g., > my.var(V1) [1] 116.1 > var(V1) [1] 116.1

I've noticed that the implementation of Kendall's Tau in R is O(N^2). The following reference describes how it can be done in O(N log N): A Computer Method for Calculating Kendall's Tau with Ungrouped Data William R. Knight Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 61, No. 314, Part 1 (Jun., 1966), pp. 436-439 http://www.jstor.org/pss/2282833 I'm interested in

Dear R subscribees, First, I am new to R and I apologize if the question is naive. I am trying to find out where arguments specifications can be found. For example, the code below (at the very bottom of this email) contains the argument 'digits' in the function 'lin' which printout my output to the 3rd decimal place. Somebody showed me the 'digits' argument, but did

Dear all, The other day I was reading this post [1] that slightly surprised me: "To reject the null of no correlation, an hypothsis test based on the normal distribution. If normality is not the base assumption your working from then p-values, significance tests and conf. intervals dont mean much (the value of the coefficient is not reliable) " (BOB SAMOHYL). To me this implied that in

In using cor(data.frame), it is annoying that you have to explicitly filter out non-numeric columns, and when you don't, the error message is misleading: > cor(iris) Error in cor(iris) : missing observations in cov/cor In addition: Warning message: In cor(iris) : NAs introduced by coercion It would be nicer if stats:::cor() did the equivalent *itself* of the following for a data.frame:

Hi, I want to calculate the R-squared between two variables. Can you advice me how to identify and remove the outliers before performing R-squared calculation? Thanks, Kan --------------------------------- SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I would like to do a PCA with dudi.pca or PCA, but also with the use of Spearman or Kendall correlations Is it possible ? Otherwise, how can I do, according to you ? Thanking you in advance Eric Bourgade RTE France [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Full_Name: Dirk Koschuetzki Version: 2.1.1 OS: source code Submission from: (NULL) (194.94.136.34) Hello, >From the source code (R-2.1.1, file: .../R-2.1.1/src/library/stats/R/) ****************************** cor.test.default <- function(x, y, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"), method = c("pearson", "kendall",

Dear R users, I have not found anything on this in the archives. Does anyone know whehther the parameter use= is not functioning in cor or enlighten me what it is supposed to do? My R version is "R version 1.8.1, 2003-11-21" on Windows 2000. I am hoping to be able to update to 1.9.1 as soon as it has appeared (we are not allowed here to install software on our own and thus I am trying

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, R! Question1: I am trying to correlate two vectors of numbers (two columns of microarray signal values) by using the non-parametric Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho: > cor.test(V2.Signal,V3.Signal,method="spearman") but I get the error message: Error in if (q > (n^3 - n)/6) pspearman(q - 1, n, lower.tail = FALSE) else pspearman(q, : missing value

Colleagues, I ran some nonparametric regressions in R (run in RedHat Linux), then a colleague repeated the analyses in SAS. When we obtained different results, I tested S-Plus (same Linux box). And, got yet different results. I replicated the results with a small dataset: DATA: 37.5 23 37.5 13 25 16 25 12 100 15 12.5 19 50 20 100 13 100 10 100 10 100 16 50 10 87.5

Full_Name: Marek Ancukiewicz Version: 2.10.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (74.0.49.2) Both cor() and cor.test() incorrectly handle ordered variables with method="kendall", cor() incorrectly handles ordered variables for method="spearman" (method="person" always works correctly, while method="spearman" works for cor.test, but not for cor()). In

Hi UseRs, I don't want to die beeing idiot... I dont understand the different results between: cor() and cov2cov(cov()). See this little example: > x=matrix(c(0.5,0.2,0.3,0.1,0.4,NA,0.7,0.2,0.6,0.1,0.4,0.9),ncol=3) > cov2cor(cov(x,use="pairwise.complete.obs")) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1.0000000 0.4653400 -0.1159542 [2,] 0.4653400 1.0000000

Hello my big problem is, i can´t find the phi-correlation instruction in the R - programm. (correlation method= spearman, pearson, kendall, I have found) I also cant find the transform instruction which I can transform rational vector into nominal vectors (binary) Transforming into ordinaI I have found with the “rank” instruction, but I have no found into nominal dates. Please help