*! cii2.ado *! version 1.02, by PT Seed (paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk) *! Confidence intervals for correlations - immediate version * Correction made to the "level" option 6 Jan 2003 prog define cii2, rclass version 6.0 local opts = substr("`*'",index("`*'",",")+1, .) if index("`opts'","corr") == 0 { cii `*' exit } tempname n r se z lb ub rstar tokenize "`*'", parse(" ,") scalar `n' = `1' scalar `r' = `2' mac shift 3 while "`1'" ~= "" { if index("`1'","l") ~= 0 { tokenize "`1'", parse(" ,()") cap assert index("level","`1'") & "`2'" =="(" & "`4'" == ")" if _rc { di in red "Syntax error" exit 198 } global S_level = `3' } mac shift } scalar `rstar' =.5*ln((1+`r')/(1-`r')) scalar `se' = (`n'-3)^-.5 scalar `z' = invnorm(.5+$S_level/200) scalar `lb' = `rstar' - `z'*`se' scalar `ub' = `rstar' + `z'*`se' scalar `lb' = (exp(2*`lb')-1)/(exp(2*`lb')+1) scalar `ub' = (exp(2*`ub')-1)/(exp(2*`ub')+1) return scalar rho = `r' return scalar N = `n' return scalar lb = `lb' return scalar ub = `ub' if index("`opts'", "nohead") == 0 { di in gr _n "Confidence interval for correlation, di in gr "based on Fisher's transformation. } di in gr "Correlation = " in ye %4.3f `r' /* */ in gr " on " in ye `n' in gr " observations"/* */ in gr " ($S_level% CI: " in ye %4.3f `lb' /* */ in gr " to " in ye %4.3f `ub' in gr ")" end cii2 exit