Research Article

Relationship between Cervical Spine and Skeletal Class II in Subjects with and without Temporomandibular Disorders

Table 6

Pearson’s and Spearman’s correlation analysis between C0-C1 distance and ANB scores.

TMDPearson’s correlation indexStudent’s t test ()Spearman’s correlation indexStudent’s t test ()

Absent (N = 33)0.147 (L)0.830 (NS)0.158 (L)0.890 (NS)

Present (N = 26)0.113 (L)0.5 (NS)0.152 (L)NS according to critical values table for the nonparametric test

L: low correlation; NS: nonsignificant. Student’s t test is used for the evaluation of significance, with a value <0.005.