Setting Options

Option Name
Description
Methods
Missing values
specifies whether to include missing values in the calculations.
  • If you select the Use nonmissing values for all selected variables option, any observations that have missing values are excluded from the analysis.
  • If you select the Use nonmissing values for pairs of variables option, the data for an observation contributes to the correlation between two variables as long as both values are nonmissing. As a result, the correlations that are calculated for the analysis variable might be based on a different number of observations.
Statistics
You can specify whether the results include only the statistics that the task automatically generates, the statistics that you selected, or no statistics. By default, only the correlations table is displayed in the results.
You can include these statistics in the results:
  • correlations
  • covariances
  • sum of squares and cross-products
  • corrected sum of squares and cross-products
  • descriptive statistics
Display p-values
specifies whether to display for each correlation coefficient the probability of observing a more extreme value than the observed coefficient.
Order correlations from highest to lowest (in absolute value)
displays the ordered correlation coefficients for each variable. Correlations are ordered from highest to lowest in absolute value.