Re: st: re: combined Correlationmatrix Pearson and Spearman + LaTeX output

[René Geppert <geppert.rene@googlemail.com>]

You are absolutely right Mr. Cox.
I totally overlooked the relevant -outtable- part of the code 
responsible for formatting the output.

Thank you for calling my attention to this point.

Nick Cox schrieb:
> I think you are confusing three quite distinct issues. 
>
> -correlate-, -pwcorr- and -spearman- all calculate results to machine precision.  
>
> Each of them has their own choice of display format, which happen to be identical at %7.4f. 
>
> If you pick up the correlation in r(rho), then what display format you use to print that out elsewhere is up to you. 
>
> I wonder what use 5th and higher decimal places can be for correlations in any case. 
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> René Geppert
>
> Still there's one question left to the code: How can I determine the 
> number of decimals the coefficients shall be rounded to?
> (pw)corr and spearman do not seem to explicitly provide for such an option.
>
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