You are correct, the value of the correlation coefficient which would be
significant with 4 observations is 0.95.
Martin
On 24 July 2018 at 17:57, paaveen jeyaganth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear allstat ,
> i have 4 data point i did a pearson correlation end up with
> r= 0.8919
> p= 0.1081
> why is that it's not significant since it's high correlation 0.89
> because of sample size??
>
> Thanks
> Paaveen
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