Shahab; You would be well advised not to seek private tutoring from someone on the Internet who tells you that a p-value of 0.008736 is "not significant".
On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Raphael Saldanha <saldanha.plan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shahab, > > This test shows that there is some positive statistical correlation, BUT > the p-value of the test - this is, the level of significance - shows that > the correlation is not statistically significant at 95% confidence level. > So, the correlation may be equal to zero. > > To understand this concepts in a good way, you need to be secure about > variance and hypothesis test. > > I can help you more if you need. Send me a direct mail (this list is for > doubts about R, not conceptual statistics). I will be happy to help you > with Statistics. > > My e-mail: saldanha.plan...@gmail.com > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:58 PM, shahab <shahab.mok...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am not really familiar with Correlation foundations, although I read >> a lot. So maybe if someone kindly help me to interpret the following >> results. >> I had the following R commands: >> >> correlation <-cor( vector_CitationProximity , vector_Impact, method = >> "spearman", use="na.or.complete") >> cor_test<-cor.test(vector_CitationProximity, vector_Impact, >> method="spearman") >> >> and the results are: >> "correlation" >> Correlation = 0.04715686 >> >> "cor_test" >> Spearman's rank correlation rho >> >> data: vector_CitationProximity and vector_Impact >> S = 5581032104, p-value = 0.008736 >> alternative hypothesis: true rho is not equal to 0 >> sample estimates: >> rho >> 0.04582115 >> >> >> So apparently, there is positive correlation between two given >> variables since Correlation = 0.04715686 > 0 >> However I couldn't interpret the significance ?' what does "rho" say? >> Is there any simple sample that I can read and try to understand? I am >> do confused in understanding how significance can be interpreted. >> >> Thanks, >> >> /Shahab >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Atenciosamente, > > Raphael Saldanha > saldanha.plan...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
