Re: [R] Point biserial correlation => Is there any specific command or could I just use cor.test?

2012-01-21 Thread John Fox
Dear Michael and Cadu, Sorry -- I missed the original question. The polycor package has functions for polyserial and polychoric correlations; biserial and tetrachoric correlations are special cases for dichotomous variables. The point biserial correlation is just the Pearson correlation betwee

Re: [R] Point biserial correlation => Is there any specific command or could I just use cor.test?

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Dewey
At 13:15 20/01/2012, Cadu wrote: Hello, I found in the forum two threads about point biserial correlation. One of them (1) mentioned "a point-biserial correlation is just a Pearson correlation where one of the variables is dichotomous. Thus, the command is just the normal cor function". The

[R] Point biserial correlation => Is there any specific command or could I just use cor.test?

2012-01-20 Thread Cadu
Hello, I found in the forum two threads about point biserial correlation. One of them (1) mentioned "a point-biserial correlation is just a Pearson correlation where one of the variables is dichotomous. Thus, the command is just the normal cor function". The other (2) mentioned "Professor Fox

Re: [R] Point-biserial correlation

2008-07-23 Thread William Revelle
At 10:23 PM +0200 7/23/08, Tobias Verbeke wrote: Angelo Scozzarella wrote: what the command for the point-biserial correlation? Have a look at the polycor package by John Fox. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/polycor/index.html HTH, Tobias A point-biserial correlation is just a Pear

Re: [R] Point-biserial correlation

2008-07-23 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Angelo Scozzarella wrote: what the command for the point-biserial correlation? Have a look at the polycor package by John Fox. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/polycor/index.html HTH, Tobias __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.

[R] Point-biserial correlation

2008-07-23 Thread Angelo Scozzarella
Hi, what the command for the point-biserial correlation? Thank Angelo Scozzarella __ 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 pro