<?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/corrsCi</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>14</revnumber><date>2019-11-19 11:55:48</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2019-11-19 11:48:12</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:10:56</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:10:25</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 14:08:30</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2013-08-27 13:50:22</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:17:37</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2007-07-17 09:22:37</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2007-07-17 09:16:14</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2007-07-17 09:15:49</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2007-01-19 10:25:46</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2007-01-19 10:25:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2007-01-19 10:25:13</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2007-01-19 10:24:42</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>How do I obtain 95% Confidence Intervals for a (Pearson) correlation in SPSS?</title><para>Weaver and Koopman (2014) use SPSS macros available from   <ulink url="https://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/Home/statistics/spss/my-spss-page/rhoci">here</ulink> to obtain confidence intervals for each element of a matrix of Pearson correlations showing associations between variables.  </para><para>This method is also suggested by Howell (2002) and has advantages over using 95% confidence intervals based upon regression coefficients of standardised variables in giving asymmetric intervals which are contained within the range [-1,1] and is, therefore, to be preferred. </para><para>A 95% confidence interval using the backtransformed Fisher transformation for a <emphasis>single</emphasis>   Pearson correlation may also be computed using this  <ulink url="http://vassarstats.net/rho.html">on-line calculator.</ulink> </para><para><emphasis role="underline">References</emphasis> </para><para>Bonett DG (2019) Point-biserial correlation: Interval estimation,hypothesis testing, meta-analysis, and sample size determination. To appear <emphasis>British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology</emphasis>. Confidence intervals for different types of bi-serial correlations used as alternative two group effect sizes to Cohen's d. </para><para>Howell DC (2002) Statistical Methods for Psychologists. 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>