Table 3.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between the significant discriminatory characteristics as indicated by the Kruskal–Wallis test results in Table 2.

	TUS	LSN	ES	IB/IC	IC/IS	IL/IT	IWOB	SN	SFN	SFC	SPH	SPB	LS	PBH	AAC
LSN	0.58
ES	0.01	−0.62
IB/IC	−0.60	−0.73	0.31
IC/IS	−0.56	−0.55	0.08	0.66
IL/IT	−0.58	−1.00	0.62	0.73	0.55
IWOB	0.58	1.00	−0.62	−0.73	−0.55	−1.00
SN	0.65	0.81	−0.34	−0.51	−0.53	−0.81	0.81
SFN	−0.53	−0.59	0.14	0.49	0.74	0.59	−0.59	−0.44
SFC	0.34	0.78	−0.52	−0.47	−0.43	−0.78	0.78	0.74	−0.39
SPH	0.13	0.50	−0.18	−0.21	−0.25	−0.50	0.50	0.31	−0.55	0.39
SPB	0.10	0.63	−0.51	−0.31	−0.22	−0.63	0.63	0.47	−0.29	0.66	0.30
LS	−0.51	−0.84	0.55	0.74	0.54	0.84	−0.84	−0.60	0.57	−0.62	−0.47	−0.57
PBH	−0.01	−0.48	0.40	0.38	0.32	0.48	−0.48	−0.41	0.11	−0.67	−0.17	−0.70	0.46
AAC	−0.39	−0.91	0.59	0.58	0.46	0.91	−0.91	−0.68	0.48	−0.69	−0.58	−0.67	0.71	0.53
GSTN	0.50	0.58	−0.31	−0.48	−0.54	−0.58	0.58	0.61	−0.31	0.72	0.30	0.36	−0.64	−0.58	−0.46

Values highlighted in bold are statistically significant at P < 0.01(**).