# pingouin.rm_corr

pingouin.rm_corr(data=None, x=None, y=None, subject=None, tail='two-sided')[source]

Repeated measures correlation.

Parameters
datapd.DataFrame

Dataframe.

x, ystring

Name of columns in data containing the two dependent variables.

subjectstring

Name of column in data containing the subject indicator.

tailstring

Specify whether to return ‘one-sided’ or ‘two-sided’ p-value.

Returns
statspandas DataFrame

Test summary

'r' : Repeated measures correlation coefficient
'dof' : Degrees of freedom
'pval' : one or two tailed p-value
'CI95' : 95% parametric confidence intervals
'power' : achieved power of the test (= 1 - type II error).


Notes

Repeated measures correlation (rmcorr) is a statistical technique for determining the common within-individual association for paired measures assessed on two or more occasions for multiple individuals.

From Bakdash and Marusich (2017):

“Rmcorr accounts for non-independence among observations using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to statistically adjust for inter-individual variability. By removing measured variance between-participants, rmcorr provides the best linear fit for each participant using parallel regression lines (the same slope) with varying intercepts. Like a Pearson correlation coefficient, the rmcorr coefficient is bounded by − 1 to 1 and represents the strength of the linear association between two variables.”

Results have been tested against the rmcorr R package.

Please note that NaN are automatically removed from the dataframe (listwise deletion).

References

1

Bakdash, J.Z., Marusich, L.R., 2017. Repeated Measures Correlation. Front. Psychol. 8, 456. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00456

2

Bland, J. M., & Altman, D. G. (1995). Statistics notes: Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1—correlation within subjects. Bmj, 310(6977), 446.

3

https://github.com/cran/rmcorr

Examples

>>> import pingouin as pg

Now plot using the pingouin.plot_rm_corr() function:
>>> import pingouin as pg