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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Dent Assoc. 2011 Oct;142(10):1183–1191. doi: 10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0088

TABLE 3.

Interitem correlation matrix.*

VARIABLE VARIABLE
Stiffness or Pain on Awakening Pain Frequency Chewing Affects Pain Movement Affects Pain Parafunction Affects Pain
Pain Frequency 0.72
Chewing Affects Pain 0.89 0.78
Movement Affects Pain 0.89 0.74 0.92
Parafunction Affects Pain 0.90 0.78 0.96 0.91
Other Activities Affect Pain 0.83 0.65 0.90 0.85 0.90
*

Correlations with “pain frequency” are based on Kendall τ-b rank correlation; all other correlations are tetrachoric with use of a maximum likelihood estimator.

Empty cells are redundant with other cells in the matrix that contain the value.