Table 3.

Correlations between cycling protocols over all primers

Protocol	Measure	#1	#2	#3	Afast	Mfast	Sfast60°	Sfast62°
Universal	Pearsona	1	0.956	0.955	0.614	0.714	0.554	0.808
	Sigmab		4.38E−26	7.16E−26	3.44E−06	1.18E−08	4.44E−05	3.81E−12
Universal	Pearson		1	0.974	0.672	0.741	0.572	0.811
	Sigma			1.97E−31	1.67E−07	1.75E−09	2.20E−05	2.67E−12
Universal	Pearson			1	0.688	0.768	0.592	0.839
	Sigma				6.50E−08	1.96E−10	9.30E−06	9.70E−14
Afast	Pearson				1	0.84	0.526	0.704
	Sigma					8.12E−14	1.25E−04	2.37E−08
Mfast	Pearson					1	0.605	0.752
	Sigma						5.25E−06	7.45E−10
Sfast 60	Pearson						1	0.76
	Sigma							3.63E−10
Sfast 62	Pearson							1

^aPearson Correlation coefficient (n = 48).

^bSigma (P-value) for two-tailed t-test (n = 48).