> 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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