简介:Iafluencefunctionofastatisticdescribestheeffectofasmallperturbationofthedataonthisstatistic.ThispaperstudiestheinfluencefunctionofsquaredcorrelationcoefficientR^2ofksetsofvariablesdefinedbyY.ZhangandX.ZhuandgivesthevarianceanditsestimationofthesquaredsamplecorrelationcoefficientRn^2.Finally,theresultsobtainedareappliedtoassessingtheinfiuenceofindividualobservationwiththeaidofanexample.