psych (version 1.0-17)

fisherz: Fisher z transform of r

Description

convert a correlation to a z score using the Fisher transformation.

Usage

fisherz(rho)

Arguments

rho

a Pearson r

Value

• z value corresponding to r

Examples

cors <- seq(-.9,.9,.1)
round(fisherz(cors),2)

## The function is currently defined as
function(rho)  {0.5*log((1+rho)/(1-rho)) }   #converts r to z