Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for 11 Robust Correlations in the Presence of Outliers and Leverage Observations

Researchers often examine whether two continuous variables (X and Y) are linearly related. Pearson’s correlation (r) is a widely-employed statistic for assessing bivariate linearity. However, the accuracy of r is known to decrease when data contain outliers and/or leverage observations, a circumstan...

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Main Author: Johnson Ching-Hong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2022-06-01
Series:Methodology
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Online Access:https://meth.psychopen.eu/index.php/meth/article/view/8467