The phrase "between both tools" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to express that something lies between, or is shared by, two distinct things, such as tools. For example, you could say, "The process of achieving this goal was improved by the knowledge shared between both tools."
Comparison between the results from both tools can be used to confirm the functional associations of the interested gene sets.
The overlap between the two tools and the wider scope of the RTI item bank explain why the correlation between quality assessments with both tools was positive, but moderate at best.
Study objectives were to: 1) conduct exploratory factor analyses on the CM and confirmatory factor analysis on the RAS tools (construct validity), 2) calculate Cronbach's alphas for each dimension emerging from objective 1 (reliability), and 3) calculate correlations between all dimensions from both tools (convergent validity).
The intersection between both prediction tools revealed 118 potentially protein coding transcripts (1.1%, Additional file 2) and 4,948 potentially ncRNA (45.5%, Additional file 3).
In testing the correlation between study quality assessments with both tools, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was 0.35 for high risk of bias with the NOS and high or unclear risk of bias with the RTI item bank, and 0.38 for high risk of bias with the NOS and high risk of bias with the RTI item bank.
The overall agreement or percentage agreement (Hartmann 1977) between two or more tools is the proportion of instances (classes or methods) that were classified in the same category by both tools, for the overall agreement between pairs, or by all tools, in the case of overall agreement between multiple tools.
As the data have shown here, there is no statistically significant difference between the tools, thus both QCM chambers have applicability depending on the design of the experiment and the desired outcome.
