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partial.corr

partial correlations

Description

The partial correlation of x and y conditioning on z is the ordinary correlation of the residuals from the regression of x on z and the regression of y on z.

Usage

partial.corr(vars, cond)

Arguments

`vars`	matrix of data.frame of all the variables to be correlated.
`cond`	matrix of data.frame of all the variables to be conditioned on.

Value

matrix of partial correlations of the numeric variables in the argument vars conditioning on the numeric variables in cond.

Author(s)

Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>

Examples

if.R(r=
partial.corr(longley[,1:3], longley[,4:6])
,s=
partial.corr(longley.x[,1:3], longley.x[,4:6])
)

HH

Statistical Analysis and Data Display: Heiberger and Holland

v3.1-43

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Richard M. Heiberger

Initial release

2020-11-27