[ncl-talk] computing confidence interval from ttest

[Dennis Shea]

I would say so ... However, to be upfront, I am not sure of he original
question.

Note that correlations are bounded [-1 to +1]. Hence, not 'normally
distributed.' Usually, the correlations are put into a normal distribution
via the Fischer z-transform. Means and std dev are in 'z-space'; the
results are transformed back

 Look at the example for
   https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/escorc.shtml

It uses the large sample size z-value1.96 ... you can use the tvalue since
tval ==> zval for large sample size

        zlow = z - 1.96*se                ; 95%  (2.58 for 99%)
        zhi  = z + 1.96*se








On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Andrew Kren - NOAA Affiliate <
andrew.kren at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thanks Dennis,
> In general, can the ttest be run on anomaly correlations?
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Has anybody answered your question?
>>
>> http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda352.htm
>> See the definition of the confidene interval.
>>
>>    tval_opt =True                                 ; p & t-value
>>    pt          = ttest(aveX,varX,sX, aveY,varY,sY, iflag, tval_opt)
>>    print(pt)
>>
>> The 2nd element is the t-value
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Andrew Kren - NOAA Affiliate <
>> andrew.kren at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear ncl-talk,
>>>
>>> I'm using the function ttest in NCL to compute the two-tailed
>>> significance of a set of correlations. I plot the correlations (anomaly) as
>>> a time series as most people do. I compute the difference between the two
>>> and want to also plot an envelope that encompasses the 95% confidence range
>>> for the range of values. Is there a way to determine this from the ttest?
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Andrew Kren, PhD
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> NOAA ESRL Global Systems Division (Rm 3C515)
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