Re: rtest

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:18:12 -0600 (MDT)

> Just to confirm, does the rtest function use the t-distribution to
> estimate the significance of a correlation coefficient?
> ============================

The short answer is "yes"

Two references:

 Numerical Recipies: Linear Correlation

 Climatic Change, WMO Tech Note 79, p66
          says "tval" formula is good for xn>=8]

good luck
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