Vargha, András; Bergman, Lars; Delaney, Harold - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 6, pp. 3391-3402
The partial correlation is a commonly used measure for assessing the bivariate correlation of two quantitative variables after eliminating the influence of one or more other variables. The partial correlation is generally interpreted as the correlation that would result if the variables to be...