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. 2011 Oct 11;6:27. doi: 10.1186/1747-597X-6-27

Table 6.

Sport (T - tennis; TT - table tennis; B - badminton) specific correlation analysis between ordinal variables for females

Education Binging Smoking Sport experience Sport status Sport achievement Doping in sport
Age T 0.75*
TT 0.59*
B 0.76*

Binging T 0.78*
TT -0.43*
B -0.01

Smoking T # #
TT -0.10 0.19
B 0.09 0.31

Sport experience T 0.92* 0.49 #
TT 0.52* -0.24 -0.12
B 0.10 0.02 0.07

Sport status T -0.90* -0.69 # -0.82*
TT -0.01 0.07 0.15 0.17
B -0.49* -0.22 -0.16 0.30

Sport achievement T 0.23 0.57 # 0.00 -0.10
TT -0.21 0.07 0.17 0.18 0.10
B -0.45* -0.05 0.03 0.43* 0.76*

Doping in sport T 0.43 0.88* # 0.06 -0.32 0.65*
TT 0.42* -0.28 -0.20 0.39* 0.12 -0.09
B -0.09 -0.26 -0.19 -0.44* 0.13 -0.23

Potential doping habits T # # # # # # #
TT 0.05 0.12 0.28 0.14 0.44* 0.15 0.13
B 0.05 0.27 0.24 0.22 -0.07 0.03 -0.35

* denotes significant correlation coefficientsat p < 0.05; # denotes relationship between variables with no variance and therefore correlation was not calculated