corTest (version 1.0.7)

st4: Test Differential Correlation Using st4 Method

Description

Compute p-value for the equal correlation test with Spearman corrleaion based on a logistic regression model corresponding to two independent groups

Usage

st4(x1, z1, x0, z0)

Arguments

x1

a numeric vector

z1

a numeric vector with same length as x1

x0

a numeric vector

z0

a numeric vector with same length as x0

Value

stat

Test statistic for testing if correlation between x1 and z1 is the same as that between x0 and z0

p-value

p-value of test

signedStat

Signed test statistic

References

Danyang Yu, Zeyu Zhang, Kimberly Glass, Jessica Su, Dawn L. DeMeo, Kelan Tantisira, Scott T. Weiss, Weiliang Qiu(corresponding author). New Statistical Methods for Constructing Robust Differential Correlation Networks to characterize the interactions among microRNAs. Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 3499 (2019)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x1 = ghdist(n = 100, g = 0.2, h = 0.2)
x0 = ghdist(n = 100, g = 0.2, h = 0.2)
z1 = x1 + ghdist(n = 100, g = 0.2, h = 0.2)
z0 = x0 + ghdist(n = 100, g = 0.2, h = 0.2)
p = st4(x1, z1, x0, z0)
print(p)
# }