[BioC] rcor.test

[Naomi Altman]

To me, correlation measures the linear association between paired 
observations.  Since the pairing is essential, how could the datasets 
not be the same length?

--Naomi

At 10:12 AM 1/31/2007, Damion Colin Nero wrote:
>I am using the rcor.test function available in the ltm package and
>wanted to know if there was a way to use this function to compute the
>correlation of two datasets that are not of equal length (similar to the
>base cor function).  I was thinking an apply function like by might work
>but so far I have had no luck getting it to work.I was wondering if
>anyone could give me some general advice on this.
>
>Damion Nero
>Plant Molecular Biology Lab
>Department of Biology
>New York University
>
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