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How to represent the effect of one covariate on regression results?

Hi Abby and David,

Thanks for the useful tips! I will check those.

I completed the regression analysis in plink (as R would be very slow
for my sample size) but as I mentioned I need to determine the
influence of a specific covariate in my results and Plink is of no
help there.

I did Pearson correlation analysis for P values which I got in
regression with and without my covariate of interest and I got this:
Pearson's product-moment correlation

data:  tt$P_TD and tt$P_noTD
t = 20.17, df = 283, p-value < 2.2e-16
alternative hypothesis: true correlation is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 0.7156134 0.8117108
sample estimates:
      cor
0.7679493

I can see the p values are very correlated in those two instances. Can
I conclude that my covariate then doesn't have a huge effect or what
kind of conclusion I can draw from that?

Thanks for all your help
Ana
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:26 AM David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote: