RE: [R] RE: Comparison of correlation coefficients - Details

2004-07-22 Thread Christian . Stratowa
Stratowa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 18:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] RE: Comparison of correlation coefficients - Details That sounds very close to a meta-analytic

[R] RE: Comparison of correlation coefficients - Details

2004-07-21 Thread Christian . Stratowa
Dear all I apologize for cross-posting, but first it is accepted custom to thank the repliers and give a summary, and second I have still the feeling that this problem might be a general statistical problem and not necessarily related to microarrays only, but I might be wrong. First, I want

Re: [R] RE: Comparison of correlation coefficients - Details

2004-07-21 Thread idimakos
That sounds very close to a meta-analytic comparison of two statistics. As a matter of fact, the Rosenthal Rubin approach transforms all primary statistics into Pearson r and then to Fisher's z and then follows with comparisons. More, comparisons can take into account sample sizes, or the value