Hi, I am not really familiar with Correlation foundations, although I read a lot. So maybe if someone kindly help me to interpret the following results. I had the following R commands:
correlation <-cor( vector_CitationProximity , vector_Impact, method = "spearman", use="na.or.complete") cor_test<-cor.test(vector_CitationProximity, vector_Impact, method="spearman") and the results are: "correlation" Correlation = 0.04715686 "cor_test" Spearman's rank correlation rho data: vector_CitationProximity and vector_Impact S = 5581032104, p-value = 0.008736 alternative hypothesis: true rho is not equal to 0 sample estimates: rho 0.04582115 So apparently, there is positive correlation between two given variables since Correlation = 0.04715686 > 0 However I couldn't interpret the significance ?' what does "rho" say? Is there any simple sample that I can read and try to understand? I am do confused in understanding how significance can be interpreted. Thanks, /Shahab ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.