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Re: st: Statistical hypothesis test for comparing dependent Spearman's rho coefficients in Stata
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Statistical hypothesis test for comparing dependent Spearman's rho coefficients in Stata
Date
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:29:54 +0100
If you can state the precise assumptions that you have, it should be
possible to simulate to get a sampling distribution for a quantity of
interest. Much experience points to it being easier to compare on a
atanh scale rather than a correlation scale.
Nick
[email protected]
On 20 June 2013 13:23, Margaret MacDougall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am very interested in using Stata to perform a hypothesis test to compare
> two values, rho_1 and rho_2, say, of Spearman's rho. There is a dependency
> between the values as one of the variables used to obtain rho_1 was also
> used to obtain rho_2. Has anyone identified a way of achieving the above in
> Stata? I have observed from a previous post that some related discussion
> took place many years ago but I would keen to find out if there has been
> progress in developing a module in relation to the above need or if there is
> existing code that a list user would be kindly willing to share for the same
> purpose.
>
> Very many thanks
>
> Best wishes
>
> Margaret
>
>
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