Table 3. Spearman's coefficients of the ten strongest (absolute) pair-wise correlations between immunological responses for each day of analysis.
Day 31 | Correlation Pair | Day37 | Correlation Pair | Day52 | Correlation Pair | Day59 | Correlation Pair |
0.67 | CD4, CD25 | 0.51 | IL12, TNFα | b−0.50 | IL10, CD4 | 0.51 | CD4, Neutr |
0.67 | IL10, TNFα | 0.53 | IL10, IL12 | 0.54 | Lymph, CD25 | −0.51 | FAS, CD25 |
0.67 | IFNγ, CD8 | 0.65 | FAS, IFNγ | 0.54 | Lymph, CD8 | 0.52 | Lymph, Neutr |
0.68 | FAS, IFNγ a | 0.71 | IL10, TNFα | 0.55 | IL4, IL12 | 0.52 | Lymph, CD8 |
0.68 | Lymph, CD4 | 0.86 | Lymph, CD8 | −0.61 | IL10, Lymph | −0.55 | IFNγ, CD25 |
0.71 | Lymph, CD25 | 0.88 | CD8, CD25 | 0.61 | FAS, IFNγ | −0.60 | FAS, Neutr |
0.78 | CD8, CD25 | 0.89 | Lymph, CD4 | 0.64 | CD4, CD25 | 0.61 | CD4, CD8 |
0.79 | Lymph, CD8 | 0.90 | CD4, CD25 | 0.68 | CD8, CD25 | −0.66 | IFNγ, Neutr |
0.80 | IFNγ, TNFα | 0.92 | Lymph, CD25 | 0.72 | Lymph, CD4 | 0.84 | Lymph, CD4 |
0.89 | CD4, CD8 | 0.97 | CD4, CD8 | 0.79 | CD4, CD8 | 0.88 | FAS, IFNγ |
Pair-wise correlations that increase are bolded.
The sign indicates whether a pair co-varies positively or negatively.
All coefficients are statistically significant (p-values substantially smaller than 0.05) using a test for association/correlation between paired sample.