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TABLE 2.

Pearson product moment correlations between pairs of variables representing times for events during germination of and subsequent outgrowth from spores of nonproteolytic C. botulinum Eklund 17B

Event	Pearson product moment coefficients^a
Event	t_emerg	t_C1	t_C2	t_emerg − t_germ	t_C1 − t_germ	t_C2 − t_germ	t_C1 − t_emerg	t_C2 − t_emerg	t_C2 − t_C1
t_germ	0.838^b	0.735^b	0.720^b	0.053	0.128	0.115	0.215	0.188	0.005
t_emerg		0.889^b	0.862^b	0.589	0.511	0.459	0.274	0.246	0.117
t_C1			0.959^b	0.474	0.767^b	0.649	0.684	0.554	0.173
t_C2				0.443	0.731^b	0.773^b	0.619	0.703	0.447
t_emerg − t_germ					0.727^b	0.675	0.164	0.156	0.211
t_C1 − t_germ						0.917^b	0.797^b	0.682	0.274
t_C2 − t_germ							0.656	0.834^b	0.634
t_C1 − t_emerg								0.839^b	0.186
t_C2 − t_emerg									0.691

Boldface type indicates independent variables. Normal type indicates nested variables, where one outgrowth event is a component of the other.

Pairs of events found to be strongly correlated (>0.7).