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Comparison between the significance levels of the correlations for the made up data-sets and 2500 random samples produced based on the specifications of Table 1* |
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| P-value |
p ≤ 0.05 |
0.05 <p ≤ 0.10 |
p > 0.10 |
Total |
| Data-set |
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| Made up |
24 (70.6%) |
3 (8.8%) |
7 (20.6%) |
34 |
| Simulated |
137 (5.5%) |
125 (5.0%) |
2238 (89.5%) |
2500 |
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* data-sets with p-value ≤ 0.05 were compared with p-value > 0.05, (Fisher's exact test, p < 0.0001) | ||||
Akhtar-Danesh and Dehghan-Kooshkghazi BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003 3:18 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-3-18 |
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