[R] partial correlation coefficients in R?

[Dave Lucy]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> In general you invert the variance-covariance matrix and then rescale it
> so the diagonal is one.  The off-diagonal elements are the negative
> partial correlation coefficients given all other variables.

Martyn,

Thanks - quite a bit cleverer than mine - I'll pour over it when I need
to do some more partial correlations.

Dave.





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