Could resampling methods be used to generate more data to confirm evidence?
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:08 AM Martin Bland <
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> Non-parametric is useless here, as with fewer than 6 observations all
> possible values of either Spearman's or Kendall's have P>0.05.
>
> This is a case where the question of whether there is good evidence of a
> relationship between two variables with only 4 observations always has the
> answer "no, you would need more data."
>
> Martin
>
> On 25 July 2018 at 06:24, Juanita Hatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree. Non parametric may be better, but one is still very restricted
> by
> > a very small data set. Look at the data.
> >
> > Juanita Hatcher
> >
> > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Robert Newcombe <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Exactly! The first step is to plot a scatter diagram. Also, on a
> dataset
> > as small as this, there is no real positive assurance that parametric
> > assumptions hold, and the correlation is particularly sensitive to
> > distributional assumptions. So I suggest a non-parametric correlation
> > rather than a parametric one anyway. With the proviso that this could
> well
> > be exactly 1, without this finding being anything to get excited about.
> > >
> > > Robert Newcombe.
> > >
> > >
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> > > Please look at the data, not the summary statistics. JOHN BIBBY
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> > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 at 20:01, Martin Bland < 000017e8e212eb29-dmarc-
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> > >
> > >> 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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