If your ultimate interest is in real scientific progress, I'd suggest that you ignore that sentence (and any conclusion drawn subsequent to it).
Cheers, Andy From: bbslover > > This topic refer to independent variables reduction, as we > know ,a lot of > method can do with it,however, for pre-processing independent > varibles, a > method like the sentence below can reduce many variable, How can I > understand it? > > what is significant correlation at 5% level, what is the criterion？ P > value？or what？ > > > "Independent variables whose correlation with the response > variable was not > significant at 5% level were removed" > > how can I calucate the correlation between them? > > thank you! > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/How-can-I-understand-this-sentence-and-ex press-it-by-means-of-Mathematical-approach-> tp1584036p1584036.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
