Table 4.

Nine correlations in human (Figures 7, 8) between the miRNA abundance estimated by Equation (5) and those measured experimentally.

Experimental dataset	Linear correlation		Spearmen's rank correlation		Kendall's rank correlation
(Reference) conditions	Coefficient r	Significance α	Coefficient R	Significance α	Coefficient τ	Significance α
Azuma-Mukai et al., 2008
Individual variants	0.49	<0.001	0.30	<0.05	0.22	<0.05
Bail et al., 2010
HEK293T, norm	0.42	<0.000025	0.43	<0.00005	0.30	<0.00025
HEK293T, actinomycin D	0.46	<0.000005	0.43	<0.00005	0.30	<0.00025