Sentence examples for but weak negative correlation from inspiring English sources

Male gonadosomatic index and average daily egg production by females showed significant, but weak, negative correlation with male plasma vitellogenin concentrations.

The change in the psychological appearance subdomain of AcroQoL scores demonstrated a significant but weak negative correlation with change in IGF-I levels (r=−0.282, p=0.039).

Using 363 mouse rat orthologs, there was a significant, but weak, negative correlation between protein lengths and evolutionary rates (Zhang 2000).

In investigating whether steroids influence NK cell numbers, we found a statistically significant but weak negative correlation between steroid dosage and NK cell proportions (r = −0.43, p = 0.03) (not shown).

However, the number of GO terms annotated to a gene (multifunctionality; sensu Salathé et al. 2006) showed a highly significant but weak negative correlation with d N/d S (Spearman's rank: rs = −0.191, P = 1.31 × 10−88).

There was, however, a significant but weak negative correlation between the dose of enoxaparin and ROTEM-ML (σ = −0.36, P < 0.05); and the dose of tinzaparin and FOR-Clot SR (σ = −0.41, P < 0.05), but not between the dose of enoxaparin and FOR-Clot SR or tinzaparin and ROTEM-ML (see Table  1 and Fig.  2e and f).

Results: Significant but weak negative correlations were observed between systole/diastole (S/D) ratios, resistance indices (RIs) and pulsatility indices (PIs) and the absolute values of serum hCG levels with correlation coefficients of −0.31, −0.37, and −0.33 (P<0.05).

The same pattern was repeated among the monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs, Figure 2B), with positive correlations to lifespan for C16:1∆9 and C18 1∆11, but weaker negative correlations for C20 1 and C22 1 (Tables 2 and S3a).

The analysis shows an insignificant correlation between the chromosomal size and σG R (r = -0.12) and σA R (r = -0.12), but a weak negative correlation between the chromosomal size and σG T (r = -0.33) and σA T (r = -0.35).

As previously reported by Webb at the Racou [14], our RDA analysis shows a strong negative correlation between the presence of adults and depth but only a weak negative correlation between the presence of juveniles and depth (Fig. 4).

Carotid intima-media thickness did not differ significantly with absolute campesterol or sitosterol levels after stratification into quintiles by plant sterol levels (Fig. 2C and Fig. 2D), but showed a weak negative correlation across quintiles of campesterol-to-cholesterol (P for trend; P<0.001; Fig. 3B) and sitosterol-to-cholesterol (P for trend; P<0.001; Fig. 3C).