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. 2020 Sep 29;22(9):e19788. doi: 10.2196/19788

Table 3.

Time-lag correlation coefficients between new COVID-19 cases and NAVER relative search volumes related to the coronavirus and coronavirus test in South Korea.

Day Coronavirus searches (type of device) Coronavirus test searches (type of device)

Overall Mobile Desktop Overall Mobile Desktop
3 days

r 0.729 a,b 0.761 a 0.546a 0.770 0.756 0.677

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
2 days

r 0.694 0.726 0.534 0.797 0.787 0.657

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
1 day

r 0.681 0.720 0.497 0.824 0.799 0.717 a

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
0 days

r 0.663 0.704 0.461 0.812 0.804 a 0.638

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
1 day

r 0.661 0.692 0.475 0.828 a 0.804 0.705

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
2 days

r 0.606 0.650 0.417 0.805 0.788 0.654

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
3 days

r 0.597 0.633 0.423 0.781 0.761 0.626

P value <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001

aStrongest correlation for each column.

bItalics represent a strong correlation with r>0.7.