HH (version 2.1-23)

partial.corr: partial correlations

Description

The partial correlation of x and y conditioning on z is the ordinary correlation of the residuals from the regression of x on z and the regression of y on z.

Usage

partial.corr(vars, cond)

Arguments

vars

matrix of data.frame of all the variables to be correlated.

cond

matrix of data.frame of all the variables to be conditioned on.

Value

• matrix of partial correlations of the numeric variables in the argument vars conditioning on the numeric variables in cond.

Examples

if.R(r=
partial.corr(longley[,1:3], longley[,4:6])
,s=
partial.corr(longley.x[,1:3], longley.x[,4:6])
)