A SAS program was written to compute pairwise multiple comparisons among a set of k independent product-moment correlation coefficients. The program can accommodate both equal and unequal sample sizes for up to k = 10 samples. Although the theoretical basis of the statistical technique is attributable to Tukey, the applicability of the method to correlation coefficients was made possible through a large-sample technique described by Levy.
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