psych (version 1.0-17)

correct.cor: Find dis-attenuated correlations and give alpha reliabilities

Description

Given a raw correlation matrix and a vector of reliabilities, report the disattenuated correlations above the diagonal.

Usage

correct.cor(x, y)

Arguments

x

A raw correlation matrix

y

Vector of reliabilities

Value

• Raw correlations below the diagonal, reliabilities on the diagonal, disattenuated above the diagonal.

Details

Disattenuated correlations may be thought of as correlations between the latent variables measured by a set of observed variables. That is, what would the correlation be between two (unreliable) variables be if both variables were measured perfectly reliably.

Examples of the output of this function are seen in cluster.loadings and cluster.cor

References

http://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/405.syllabus.html

See Also

cluster.loadings and cluster.cor

Examples

# attitude from the datasets package
#example 1 is a rather clunky way of doing things
a1 <- attitude[,c(1:3)]
a2 <- attitude[,c(4:7)]
x1 <- rowSums(a1)  #find the sum of the first 3 attitudes
x2 <- rowSums(a2)   #find the sum of the last 4 attitudes
alpha1 <- alpha.scale(x1,a1)
alpha2 <- alpha.scale(x2,a2)
x <- matrix(c(x1,x2),ncol=2)
x.cor <- cor(x)
alpha <- c(alpha1,alpha2)
round(correct.cor(x.cor,alpha),2)
#
#much better - although uses standardized alpha 
clusters <- matrix(c(rep(1,3),rep(0,7),rep(1,4)),ncol=2)
cluster.loadings(clusters,cor(attitude))
# or 
clusters <- matrix(c(rep(1,3),rep(0,7),rep(1,4)),ncol=2)
cluster.cor(clusters,cor(attitude))
#


## The function is currently defined as
"correct.cor" <-
function(x,y) { n=dim(x)[1]   
        { diag(x) <- y 
        if (n> 1)  {
        for (i in 2:n) {
           k=i-1
           for (j in 1:k) {
              x[j,i] <- x[j,i]/sqrt(y[i]*y[j])  }   #fix the upper triangular part of the matrix
             }}
           return(x)  }}