It is best to start with -help- and -search-. The FAQs seek only to fill
in gaps left by the main documentation. Pearson's correlation
coefficient is provided by -correlate-. In a time series context you may
be looking for -xcorr-. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Sibel S.
I am trying to measure standardized persistence between children's
years of schooling and parents' average years of schooling using
Pearson's correlation coefficient. I looked through the FAQ, but could
not find information on this.  Is there a command for this? I also
need to obtain the standard errors for the correlation coefficients.
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