Date:         Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:52:14 -0500
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Jim Steiger has done some work in this area.  The work is
summarized in the following articles.

Olkin, I., and Finn, J.D. (1995). Correlations redux. Psychological
Bulletin, 118, 155-164.

Steiger, J.H. (1979). Multicorr: a computer program for fast, accurate,
small-sample tests of correlational pattern hypotheses. Educational and
Psychological Measurement, 39, 677-680.

Steiger, J.H. (1980). Tests for comparing elements of a correlation matrix.
Psychological Bulletin, 87, 245-251.

Steiger, J.H., & Browne, M.W. (1984). The comparison of interdependent
correlations between optimal linear composites. Psychometrika, 49, 11-21.

Multicorr, a DOS program, facilitates tests in this area.  See

http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/steiger/multi.htm

Anthony Babinec
"Data. A plural, like phenomena and strata." Strunk and White.


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Subject: comparing two correlations


Hello
I have to correlations from the same data set: one for female and one for
male. How can I check in SPSS if those two correlations are significantly
different?


Shlomo Getz
The Institute for the Research of the Kibbutz
University of Haifa
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