[R] p-value in Spearman rank order

Gavin Simpson gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Feb 28 16:31:44 CET 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:17 +0100, Anne-Katrin Link wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
> 
> I would like to do a Spearman rank order test, and used the cor() function 
> with the method "spearman". 
> It gives me a number (correlation coefficient?) , but how can I get the 
> p-value?
> Thank you for the help in advance!

?cor.test

HTH

G

> 
> Regards, 
> Anne-Katrin
>     
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