Significance Test for a Partial Correlation Corrected for Attenuation

1 July 1974

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement

Vol. 34 (2) , 211-220
https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447403400201

Abstract

Correction for attenuation is important for partial correlations because not even the sign of the partial between true scores can be inferred safely from the partial between observed (fallible) scores. Methods for inferring the corrected partial are discussed. Unfortunately, the corrected partial will sometimes have an overwhelming sampling error. A significance test is developed that largely circumvents this problem in those cases where it is enough to infer just the sign of the partial between true scores.

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