Correlations table: "Correlations greater than ... are significant at p < 0.05"

[Franz Hopp]

Hello Stata community:

In papers, I sometimes see a statement such as "Correlations greater than 0.13 are significant at p < 0.05" under the correlations table

Yet, I am still constantly failing to calculate this value (the 0.13). Thus I was wondering whether there is any way of automatically computing in Stata the strength of the correlation at which things become significant at 1%/ 5%/ 10%?

Or would I need to infer these hurdles from just looking at the correlations table?

(The mkcorr output gives a p-value under each correlation number. For example, with the dataset I use, p-values are typically 5% when the correlation number is 0.04. So I am inclined to assume the following: "Correlations greater than 0.04 are significant at p < 0.05")

Yet I was wondering if there is any way to directly calculate this number (and be sure the 0.04 is really the correct value)

Thank you so much & all the best,
Franz

[Richard Williams]

You can look at tables like this:

https://www.statisticssolutions.com/...n-correlation/

Or, use something like this:

http://vassarstats.net/rsig.html

https://www.socscistatistics.com/pva...tribution.aspx


It wouldn't surprise me if Stata has built in functions for this but I don't know what they are off the top of my head.