Table 3.
Correlations between linkage metrics (750 universities): Pearson correlation coefficients in lower-diagonal section; Spearman rank correlation coefficients in upper-diagonal section
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. %UIC | .72 | .10 | .42 | .35 | .74 | .16 | |
| 2. %MA UIC | .70 | .27 | .37 | .25 | .49 | .07 | |
| 3. %LOCAL UIC | .15 | .32 | .14 | .08 | .04 | −.06 | |
| 4. %DOMESTIC UIC | .41 | .28 | .21 | .25 | .33 | −.06 | |
| 5. %CO-PATENT | .16 | .10 | .06 | .09 | .23 | .05 | |
| 6. %NPLR | .66 | .34 | .02 | .33 | .19 | .23 | |
| 7. %NPLR-HICI | .12 | .03 | −.10 | −.07 | .03 | .18 |
In bold: statistically significant at .01 (two-sided)