Comparing Pearson Correlations: Dealing with Heteroscedasticity and Nonnormality
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Methods for computing a confidence interval for the difference between two Pearson correlations are compared when dealing with non-normality and heteroscedasticity. Variations of a method derived by Zou performed relatively well in simulations for the dependent case. For the independent case, the Wilcox-Muska method performed best.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009