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Computing Partial Correlation Via Regression

data test;
  input age x y ;
cards;
10 3 5
15 3 9
20 4 8
22 4 8
25 8 3
;
run;

* get partial correlation, it is -.94 ;
proc corr data=test;
  var x y ;
  partial age;
run;

* get residual for y , save in test2;
proc reg data=test;
  model y = age;
  output out=test2 r=yresid;
run;

* get residual for x (using test2), save in test3 ;
proc reg data=test2;
  model x = age;
  output out=test3 r=xresid;
run;

* show data ;
proc print data=test3;
run;

* do corr on "xresid" and "yresid" ;
* this works out to be -.94 ;
proc corr data=test3;
  var xresid yresid;
run;

* You can then plot "xresid" and "yresid" to ;
* see the relationship between x and y, after ;
* partialing out "age" ;