A case study assessing the impact of mating frequency on the reproductive performance of the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes

Table 1 Correlation analysis of hatchling production

Comparison	Spearman r^a	95% confidence interval	p value^b
Hatchlings versus Egg clutches	0.8774	0.6876 to 0.9550	< 0.0001
Hatchlings versus Survival	0.5328	0.07287 to 0.8058	0.0228
Hatchlings versus Matings	0.3610	− 0.1421 to 0.7158	0.1411

^aNonparametric Spearman correlation
^bp value derived from calculating a two-tailed t-ratio test with randomly sampling a distribution that has no correlation between variables

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