Table 3.

Twenty-seven correlations in Arabidopsis (Figure 4) between the miRNA abundance estimated by Equation (3) and those measured experimentally.

Experimental dataset		Linear correlation		Spearmen's rank correlation		Kendall's rank correlation
No.	(Reference) organ	Coefficient r	Significance α	Coefficient R	Significance α	Coefficient τ	Significance α
	Axtell and Bartel, 2005
1	Means, plant	0.63	<0.001	0.54	<0.005	0.37	<0.01
2	Seedlings	0.63	<0.0025	0.69	<0.001	0.47	<0.005
3	Siliques	0.59	<0.005	0.60	<0.005	0.43	<0.01
4	Inflorescences	0.62	<0.0025	0.62	<0.0025	0.42	<0.005
5	Stems	0.64	<0.0025	0.59	<0.005	0.40	<0.01
6	Cauline leaves	0.63	<0.001	0.54	<0.005	0.37	<0.01
7	Rosette leaves	0.52	<0.01	0.51	<0.001	0.35	<0.025
8	Roots	0.69	<0.0005	0.73	<0.00025	0.55	<0.0005
	Lu et al., 2005
9	Whole plant, MPSS	0.56	<0.01	0.46	<0.05	0.30	<0.05

MPSS, Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing.