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st: strange results with corr


From   Kenley Barrett <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: strange results with corr
Date   Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:44:07 -0600

I am getting strange results when I run the "corr" command on my
variables. From my understanding, "corr" gives the correlation
coefficient, so if a value of 1 for Dummy Variable A guarantees a
value of 0 for Dummy Variable B, then corr should give a result of -1.
But instead I am getting values between 0 and -1. A sample of two
variables shown below:

. count if wifelit == 1 & wifeprim == 1
    0

. count if wifelit == 0 & wifeprim == 1
 2458

. corr wifelit wifeprim
(obs=14316)

             |  wifelit wifeprim
-------------+------------------
     wifelit |   1.0000
    wifeprim |  -0.1062   1.0000

What could be the problem? Am I misunderstanding the corr command?

Thank you very much for your help.

Kenley Barrett
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