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Table 8 Pairs of expression statements (ES) and background questions (BQ) having significant correlation (>=0.70 with the level p < 0.001; see [38]) based on a Kendall rank-correlation measure, all these were statistically significant with the level p < 0.001, and the highest cosine similarity values including the same pairs of expression statements and background questions

From: Detecting the patient’s need for help with machine learning based on expressions

A pair of expression statements (ES) and background questions (BQ)

Kendall rank-correlation measure

Cosine similarity measure

ES16&ES17

0.91

0.97

ES14&ES15

0.86

0.95

ES9&ES10

0.79

0.92

ES16&ES18

0.78

0.90

ES17&ES18

0.77

0.89

ES7&ES8

0.75

0.87

ES1&ES2

0.73

0.80

BQ1&BQ6

0.71

0.82