fmsb (version 0.6.3)

spearman.ci.sas: Calculate Spearman's rank correlation with its confidence intervals by SAS method

Description

Calculate Spearman's rank correlation with its confidence intervals by the same method as SAS.

Usage

spearman.ci.sas(x, y, adj.bias=TRUE, conf.level=0.95)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector.

y

A numeric vector.

adj.bias

Logical. If TRUE, adjustment for bias is taken. Default TRUE.

conf.level

Probability for confidence intervals. Default is 0.95.

Value

rho

Calculated point estimate of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

rho.ll

The lower limit of given confidence intervals.

rho.ul

The upper limit of given confidence intervals.

adj.bias

The option for bias adjustment taken.

References

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/63104/HTML/default/corr_toc.htm

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 data(airquality)
 spearman.ci.sas(airquality$Ozone, airquality$Wind)
# }