Table 6. Multiple pairwise kendall tau-b correlations among Igκ, Igγ and other clinical indices.
statistic | Igκ | Igκ | Igγ | Igγ | AJCC | SBR | Histotype | Axillary | Tumor | |
intensity | (%) | intensity | (%) | stage | score | nodes | size | |||
Igκ intensity | K-tau* | 1 | 0.56 | 0.86 | 0.54 | 0.16 | 0.16 | −0.29 | 0.05 | −0.03 |
P | 0.00** | 0.00** | 0.00** | 0.02** | 0.02** | 0.00** | 0.41 | 0.63 | ||
Igκ(%) | K-tau | 1 | 0.47 | 0.84 | 0.17 | 0.06 | −0.43 | 0.14 | −0.05 | |
P | 0.00** | 0.00** | 0.01** | 0.37 | 0.00** | 0.02** | 0.43 | |||
Igγ intensity | K-tau | 1 | 0.57 | 0.12 | 0.18 | −0.24 | 0.02 | −0.04 | ||
P | . | 0.00** | 0.07** | 0.01** | 0.00** | 0.71 | 0.6 | |||
Igγ(%) | K-tau | 1 | 0.15 | 0.05 | −0.42 | 0.13 | −0.06 | |||
P | . | 0.01** | 0.43 | 0.00** | 0.03** | 0.33 |
K-tau is a nonparametric measure of correlation.
Statistically significant if p value <0.05.