Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: st: another question on the interpretation of rho and atanhrho
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: another question on the interpretation of rho and atanhrho
Date
Tue, 8 May 2012 19:20:43 +0100
I don't think so. Hyperbolic functions are not trigonometric functions!
To a very good approximation tanh x ~ x for small x.
For the Mickey Mouse tutorial, see
SJ-8-3 pr0041 . Speaking Stata: Corr. with confidence, Fisher's z revisited
(help corrci, corrcii if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/08 SJ 8(3):413--439
reviews Fisher's z transformation and its inverse, the
hyperbolic tangent, and reviews their use in inference
with correlations
Nick
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Lachenbruch, Peter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> is it possible that we have a radian vs. degree question here? I make that blunder all the time.
David Roodman ([email protected]) [[email protected]]
> -0.244 is not tanh(-2.489), so there must be something wrong with this example.
> Stipulating a 10% significance level, 2 is more correct.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/