Hypothesis test
Partial Correlation
Partial correlation measures the linear relationship between two continuous variables after removing the shared influence of one or more control variables. The technique was formalised by R. A. Fisher in 1924 and is the standard approach whenever a researcher suspects that a third variable inflates or suppresses the observed association between two variables of interest.
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Sources
- Fisher, R.A. (1924). The Distribution of the Partial Correlation Coefficient. Metron, 3, 329–332. link ↗
- Kim, S. (2015). ppcor: An R Package for a Fast Calculation to Semi-Partial Correlation Coefficients. Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods, 22(6), 665–674. DOI: 10.5351/CSAM.2015.22.6.665 ↗