[R] gaoshan

Mike Miller mbmiller+l at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 20:39:14 CEST 2011


On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, wang peter wrote:

> aa file is:
> x  1 NA  2
> y  1 NA  3
>
> and r program is
>> aa<-read.table("aa",row.names=1)
>> bb<-cor(t(aa),method = "pearson",use="pairwise.complete.obs")
>> bb
>  x y
> x 1 1
> y 1 1
>
> i am confused why the pearson correlation coefficients between x and y is 1


You have two paired observations.  Plot the points and draw the regression 
line.  Every point is on the line (there are only two points).  The 
correlation has to be 1.

Mike


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