Hi guys,
I am using the cor() function to see if there are correlations between March
cortisol levels and December cortisol levels and I'm trying to figure out if
the function is doing what I want it to do.
Each sample has it's own separate row in the CSV file that I'm working out of.
March Cort and December Cort are different columns and they come from separate
samples, therefore their values would not be on the same row. There are only 3
individuals that have both December cort values and March cortisol values but
they still have different sample ID values (from different seasons) so they are
also not on the same row.
I ran the function twice: once as cor(cortphcor, use = "complete.obs") first
and then cor(cortphcor, use = "pairwise.complete.obs", method = "pearson").
I received the same output both times. I guess what I'm asking is, is the
output simply the correlation just for those 3 samples or is the second
pairwise. complete.obs version giving me the correlation for all of the cort
samples for March against all of the samples for December despite not being on
the same row? I'm trying to figure out how many sample values are contributing
to the correlation results I'm getting.
Thanks,
Carolyn
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