PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION

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PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION
Message posted by DONNA KIMBERLIN on October 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMPUTE A PARTIAL OR PART CORRELATION FORMULA. I UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT, JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHERE THE FIGURES FOR THE FORMULA COME FROM....

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Re: PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION
Message posted by JG on October 11, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

See some of the links and references at the following URL (129.2.115.68/stats) . Look especially for a good book on statistics for educational research.
Basically partial correlation is obtained from a regression model by assuming that some of the variables are held constant. See also some introductory material on path analysis.

Re: PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION
Message posted by asep setiawan (via 167.205.23.15) on January 5, 2002 at 7:07 AM (ET)

hallo, my name is asep setiawan
I𠍿 a college student of educational technology of Indonesian university of education in Bandung -Indonesia.

these days I𠍿 on my final work which is about "the effectively of library's references collection and service to college student's work".

here I would like to know about the meaning of partial correlation and interpreting or meaning of analysis data for partial correlation.

I would glad to pet the information from you and I thank you for the help.

Truly yours

Asep setiawan

Re: PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION
Message posted by JG (via 172.137.29.151) on January 5, 2002 at 5:08 PM (ET)

Basically you have to search the web for "partial correlation" or "social science statistics", etc.

Re: PART/PARTIAL CORRELATION
Message posted by Jack Tomsky (via 12.144.103.66) on January 8, 2002 at 5:42 PM (ET)

Corr(x,y|z) = [corr(x,y)-corr(x,z)*corr(y,z)]/[sqrt{(1-corr(x,z)^2)*(1-corr(y,z)^2)}]

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