Thank you for your comment, I will give this a thought.
The question then arises, whether or not SPSS can calculate the partial correlations for Kendall tau at all.
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Moritz Schmid
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri June 14, 2024 07:18 AM
From: Kirill Orlov
Subject: Partial rank correlations with more than one control variable
Moritz, did you see the PARTIAL CORR command SPSS Algorithms chapter? It never offered any sort of "Kendall tau partial correlation". Its formulas assume the zero order correlations (the input) are Pearson r.
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Kirill Orlov
Original Message:
Sent: Fri June 14, 2024 06:25 AM
From: Moritz Schmid
Subject: Partial rank correlations with more than one control variable
Hello Kirill,
I have seen your answering similarly to different questions similar to mine when looking for answers. My data is ordinal and non-linear, that's why i choose Kendall tau. Considering how many different sources talk about partial rank correlation with Kendall tau, I am pretty sure it's a viable method. Whether or not SPSS calculates it correctly, I trust the people from IBM to know what they are doing...
Cheers
Moritz
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Moritz Schmid
Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 13, 2024 09:25 AM
From: Kirill Orlov
Subject: Partial rank correlations with more than one control variable
Are you sure, Moritz, such thing as "partial rank correlation" exist, in principle? The well known idea and formulas of partial correlation is genuine linear regression idea. It is tied with Pearson r. You could rank your data first and then compute partial r, as usual, but that will still be partial r, only on ranked data, it won't be "partial nonparametric\rank rho\tau". Check https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/40995/3277.
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Kirill Orlov
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Sent: Tue June 11, 2024 05:04 AM
From: Moritz Schmid
Subject: Partial rank correlations with more than one control variable
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I wish to use SPSS to find the partial correlation of a pair of variables, controlling for a set of additional variables. However, I want the partial correlation to be a rank correlation, such as the Spearman rho, rather than a Pearson correlation. The Partial Corr procedure in SPSS does not provide a rank correlation option. |
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Following this troubleshooting entry https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/partial-rank-correlations-spss I am using partial rank correlations for my data analysis (although i use Kendall Tau b instead of Spearman rho).
However, I want to include more than one control variable in my data set.
So the relevant syntax line from the example would look like this for me
PARTIAL CORR salbeg time BY edlevel age
In my tests, SPSS delivered plausible results and tables. However, I couldn't find anywhere a definitive statement that this actually works in the program, and I am not just producing "artefacts".
So. Can I include more than one control variable in this way in the given SPSS code?
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Moritz Schmid
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