Correlation : SPSS/STATA

1. Correlation : SPSS/STATA SrinivasuluRajendran Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi India r.srinivasulu@gmail.com

2. Objective of the session To understand CORRELATION

3. 1. What is the procedure to perform Correlation & Regression? 2. How do we interpret results?

4. Identify the relationship between variables that we want to perform Scatter plot for outliers and type of relationship • Monthly HH food Expenditure and HHSIZE

5. Interpreting Correlation Coefficient r • strong correlation: r > .70 or r < –.70 • moderate correlation: r is between .30 & .70orr is between –.30 and –.70 • weak correlation: r is between 0 and .30 orr is between 0 and –.30 .

6. GENERATE A SCATTERPLOT TO SEE THE RELATIONSHIPS Go to Graphs →Legacy dialogues→ Scatter/Dot →Simple Click on DEPENDENT “mfx”. and move it to the Y-Axis Click on the “hhsize”. and move it to the X-Axis Click OK

7. Scatterplot might not look promising at first Double click on chart to open a CHART EDIT window

8. use Options →Bin Element Simply CLOSE this box.Bins are applied automatically.

9. BINSDot size now shows number of cases witheach pair of X, Y values DO NOT CLOSE CHART EDITOR YET!

10. Add Fit Line (Regression) • In Chart Editor: • Elements→Fit Line at Total • Close dialog box that opens • Close Chart Editor window

11. Edited Scatterplot • Distribution of cases shown by dots (bins) • Trend shown by fit line.

12. Type of Correlation • Bivariate Correlations. • Partial Correlations • Distances

13. BIVARIATE CORRELATIONS • In Bivariate Correlations, the relationship between two variables is measured. The degree of relationship (how closely they are related) could be either positive or negative. The maximum number could be either +1 (positive) or -1 (negative). This number is the correlation coefficient. A zero correlation indicates no relationship. Remember that you will want to perform a scatter plot before performing the correlation (to see if the assumptions have been met.)

14. Objective • We are interested in whether an monthly HH food expenditure was correlated with hhsize.

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17. The Bivariate Correlations dialog box will appear

18. Right arrow button to add selected variable(s) List of Variables

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20. Select one of the variables that you want to correlate by clicking on it in the left hand pane of the Bivariate Correlations dialog box i.emfx and hhsize • Check the type of correlation coefficients that you require (Pearson for parametric, and Kendall’s tau-b and Spearman for non-parametric). • Select the appropriate Test: Pearson’s correlation coefficient assumes that each pair of variables is bivariate normal and it is a measure of linear association. Two variables can be perfectly related, but if the relationship is not linear, Pearson’s correlation coefficient is not an appropriate statistic for measuring their association. • Test of Significance: You can select two-tailed or one-tailed probabilities. If the direction of association is known in advance, select One-tailed. Otherwise, select Two-tailed.

21. Flag significant correlations. Correlation coefficients significant at the 0.05 level are identified with a single asterisk, and those significant at the 0.01 level are identified with two asterisks. • Click on the Options… button to select statistics, and select Means and SD and control the missing value by clicking “Exclude Cases pairwise.

22. Click on the Continue button.

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24. Click the OK button in the Bivariate Correlations dialog box to run the analysis. The output will be displayed in a separate SPSS Viewer window.

25. SPSS Output of Correlation Matrix

26. The Descriptive Statistics section gives the mean, standard deviation, and number of observations (N) for each of the variables that you specified.

27. The correlations table displays Pearson correlation coefficients, significance values, and the number of cases with non-missing values (N). The values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to 1. The sign of the correlation coefficient indicates the direction of the relationship (positive or negative). The absolute value of the correlation coefficient indicates the strength, with larger absolute values indicating stronger relationships. The correlation coefficients on the main diagonal are always 1, because each variable has a perfect positive linear relationship with itself.

28. The significance of each correlation coefficient is also displayed in the correlation table. • The significance level (or p-value) is the probability of obtaining results as extreme as the one observed. If the significance level is very small (less than 0.05) then the correlation is significant and the two variables are linearly related. If the significance level is relatively large (for example, 0.50) then the correlation is not significant and the two variables are not linearly related.

29. Partial Correlations • The Partial Correlations procedure computes partial correlation coefficients that describe the linear relationship between two variables while controlling for the effects of one or more additional variables. Correlations are measures of linear association. Two variables can be perfectly related, but if the relationship is not linear, a correlation coefficient is not a proper statistic to measure their association.

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31. How to perform Partial Correl: SPSS Analyze –> Correlate –> Partial...

32. You will be presented with the “Partial Correlations" dialogue box:

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34. Click right click on variables and select “Display Variable” • Click “Sort Alphabetically “

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38. Select one of the variables that you want to correlate by clicking on it in the left hand pane of the Bivariate Correlations dialog box i.emfx and hhsize • In this case, we can see the correlation between monthly HH food expenditure and household size when head of education maintain constant. • Test of Significance: You can select two-tailed or one-tailed probabilities. If the direction of association is known in advance, select One-tailed. Otherwise, select Two-tailed.

39. Flag significant correlations. Correlation coefficients significant at the 0.05 level are identified with a single asterisk, and those significant at the 0.01 level are identified with two asterisks. • Click OK to get results

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41. As we can see, the positive correlation between mfx and hhsize when hh_edu is maintained constant is significant at 1% level (p > 0.00)

42. Hands-on Exercises • Find out the correlation relationship between per capita total monthly expenditure and household size and identify the nature of relationship and define the reasons? • Find out the correlation relationship between per capita total monthly expenditure and household size by controlling the village those who have adopted technology and not adopted tech? • Find out the correlation relationship between per capita food expenditure and non-food expenditure by controlling district effect? [Hint: it is two tail why?]

43. Distances • This procedure calculates any of a wide variety of statistics measuring either similarities or dissimilarities (distances), either between pairs of variables or between pairs of cases. These similarity or distance measures can then be used with other procedures, such as factor analysis, cluster analysis, or multidimensional scaling, to help analyze complex data sets.