<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>FAQ/corrs</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2023-06-06 10:27:15</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:19:03</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:18:42</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:18:15</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:17:05</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:17:59</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2012-03-13 15:31:08</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2007-01-25 15:56:18</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2007-01-15 10:11:35</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2007-01-15 10:11:10</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2006-12-06 13:30:27</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-12-06 13:28:18</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-12-06 13:27:51</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Testing if a correlation is zero</title><para>Howell DC (2002) details the method to test if a correlation zero using Fisher's transformation. This <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-01.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/FAQ/corrs/statswiki/FAQ/corrs?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=corr.xls">spreadsheet</ulink> performs this calculation returning a z value. </para><para>A confidence interval for a correlation may be computed using the on-line calculator <ulink url="https://www.statology.org/confidence-interval-correlation-coefficient-calculator/">given here</ulink> and for a matrix of Pearson correlations using the SPSS macro of Weaver and Koopman available from <ulink url="https://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/Home/statistics/spss/my-spss-page/rhoci">from here.</ulink> </para><para>Reference: </para><para>Howell DC (2002) Statistical methods for psychology. Fifth Edition. Wadsworth:Pacific Grove, CA. </para><para>Weaver B and Koopman R (2014) An SPSS Macro to Compute Confidence Intervals for Pearson’s Correlation. To appear in <emphasis>The Quantitative Methods for Psychology</emphasis> in Spring 2014. </para></section></article>