2.7. Statistical Analysis
Spearman’s rank correlation (rho) was employed to assess the associations between the frequency of maternal food intake of the 38 listed items or grades of feeding patterns and seven outcomes, and among n-3 LCPUFAs and n-6 LCPUFAs to quantify the strength of correlations a rho value of ≥0.9 was considered a very strong correlation, 0.9 > rho ≥ 0.7 was strong, 0.7 > rho ≥ 0.4 was moderate, 0.4 > rho ≥ 0.1 was weak, and rho < 0.1 was a negligible correlation [