Re: st: RE: Measures of association for a small sample

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Sorry, the -somersd- command would be even better as

somersd X Y, taua transf(z) tdist

which gives marginally fatter confidence intervals which are PROBABLY 
more realistic.
Best wishes

Roger


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On 11/01/2012 11:37, Roger B. Newson wrote:
> I would second the recommendation of -ktau-, but would be less keen on
> -spearman-. The Daniels permutational limit theorem is a version of the
> Central Limit Theorem that works very quickly for Kendall's tau-a but
> not so quickly for Spearman's rho. For Kendall's tau-a with continuous
> data, the null distribution is almost indistinguishable even at N=8. See
> Kendall and Gibbons (1990).
>
> Of course, if you want a confidence interval for Kendall's tau-a instead
> of just a P-value, then you can use the -somersd- package, downloadable
> from SSC. This should produce sensible results for N=18. As in:
>
> somersd X Y, taua transf(z)
>
> which gives an asymmetric confidence interval for Kendall's tau-a, using
> the delta-jackknife method and the Normalizing and variance-stabilizing
> Fisher z-transform.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
>
> References
>
> Kendall, M. G., and J. D. Gibbons. 1990. Rank Correlation Methods. 5th
> ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
>
> Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
> Lecturer in Medical Statistics
> Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
> National Heart and Lung Institute
> Imperial College London
> Royal Brompton Campus
> Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
> 1B Manresa Road
> London SW3 6LR
> UNITED KINGDOM
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
> Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
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> http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/
>
>
> Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
>
> On 10/01/2012 23:01, Steve Samuels wrote:
> > I believe that Francisco used the word "population" in a loose sense,
> > because he didn't realize that it has a technical meaning in
> > statistics. I think he means "sample". To solve his problem I suggest
> > -spearman- or -ktau-.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
> >
> > If you have the entire population, why do you need significance tests?
> > Isn't the measure sufficient?
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Francisco Rowe
> > [frowe@ucn.cl]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Measures of association for a small sample
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for taking advantage of statalist for this -I am trying to
> > measure the association between two variables with a reduced number of
> > observations (13) which constitutes my entire population.
> >
> > I have utilised pairwise correlation coefficients (pwcorr) and
> > regression using an Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS)
> > estimation (rreg) (on cross-sectional data). However, given some of
> > the assumptions of these measures, the results can be questioned. For
> > this reason, I would like to implement some additional tests or
> > measures on my data.
> >
> > Would it be possible to have some guidance on this?
> > Are regressions based on IRLS useful in this context?
> > Which non-parametric measure can it be useful?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Francisco.
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