Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On 25 Apr 2000, Simon, Steve, PhD wrote: > I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is > drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial correlation". > I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. As others have pointed out, part is synon

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Daniel J. Nordlund
Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is >drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial correlation". >I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. > >As best I understand it, If you have three vari

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Elliot Cramer
Simon, Steve, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : The instructor claims that the part correlation is usually better (more : interpretable?) but that SPSS and other software will not compute such a : correlation. : Does any of this make sense? Why would you ever want to use a part : correlation? She

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Paul W. Jeffries
> The instructor claims that the part correlation is usually better (more > interpretable?) but that SPSS and other software will not compute such a > correlation." If you run a multiple regression in SPSS (Analyze -->Regression -->Linear), click on the Statistics tab; there is an option for Par

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Simon, Steve, PhD wrote: > I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is > drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial > correlation". I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. Neither had I until I found myself t

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-25 Thread dennis roberts
some books call the SEMI partial r ... the part correlation (or vice versa) ... i avoid it because ... part and partial sound too much alike when would you use the semi partial? 1. i use it sometimes to provide an alternative way to obtain the multiple R ... say predictors are x1 and x2 ... and

Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-25 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial correlation". I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. As best I understand it, If you have three variables, A, B, C, then you can compute residual