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. 2011 Jul 25;11(8):7382–7394. doi: 10.3390/s110807382

Table 3.

The correlation coefficients between the selected fluorescence indices and various types of biodegradability parameters for the effluent.


Index I Index II Index III Index IV Index V
BOD/COD 0.297 (0.231) * 0.537 (0.021) 0.515 (0.029) 0.027 (0.915) 0.507 (0.031)

CBOD/COD 0.299 (0.227) 0.643 (0.004) 0.657 (0.003) 0.032 (0.898) 0.636 (0.005)

BDOC/DOC 0.442 (0.066) 0.720 (<0.001) 0.674 (0.002) 0.146 (0.564) 0.648 (0.004)

BTOC/TOC 0.364 (0.137) 0.558 (0.016) 0.470 (0.048) −0.002 (0.994) 0.347 (0.158)
*

The numbers in the parentheses are p-values.