Table 2 Feature difference between the two alphabets (Cyrillic and Latin) for different grades.

From: The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet

  

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Feature

 

corr

pvalue

corr

p value

corr

stat

corr

p value

Static

         

 Bandwidth Tremolo - #1

 

0.011

0.96

0.029

0.81

0.3

0.059

0.014

0.93

 Median Tremolo - #2

 

0.21

0.27

0.13

0.27

0.29

0.065

0.31

<5e-2

 Space Between Words - #3

 

0.77

<1e-3

0.58

<1e-3

0.52

<1e-3

0.46

<1e-3

 Handwriting Moment - #4

 

0.35

0.066

0.42

<1e-3

0.68

<1e-3

0.56

<1e-3

 Handwriting Density - #5

 

0.73

<1e-3

0.75

<1e-3

0.73

<1e-3

0.74

<1e-3

Kinematic

         

 Mean Velocity - #6

 

0.72

<1e-3

0.72

<1e-3

0.69

<1e-3

0.69

<1e-3

 Max Velocity - #7

 

0.4

<5e-2

0.55

<1e-3

0.37

<5e-2

0.34

<5e-2

 In-Air-Time Ratio - #8

 

0.45

<5e-2

0.53

<1e-3

0.4

<1e-2

0.53

<1e-3

 Bandwidth Speed - #9

 

0.52

<1e-2

0.53

<1e-3

0.22

0.17

0.53

<1e-3

 Median Speed - #10

 

0.22

0.25

0.56

<1e-3

0.54

<1e-3

0.4

<1e-2

Pressure

         

 Mean Pressure - #11

 

0.95

<1e-3

0.68

<1e-3

0.76

<1e-3

0.81

<1e-3

 Mean Speed of Pressure Change - #12

 

0.67

<1e-3

0.57

<1e-3

0.37

<5e-2

0.54

<1e-3

 Max Speed of Pressure Change - #13

 

0.84

<1e-3

0.55

<1e-3

0.69

<1e-3

0.54

<1e-3

 Nb of Peaks of Pressure Change per secs - #14

 

0.68

<1e-3

0.5

<1e-3

0.47

<1e-2

0.37

<1e-2

 Median Pressure - #15

 

−0.045

0.82

0.29

<5e-2

0.49

<1e-2

0.41

<1e-2

Tilt

         

 Std. Tilt-X - #16

 

0.53

<1e-2

0.58

<1e-3

0.6

<1e-3

0.7

<1e-3

 Std. of Speed of Tilt-X change - #17

 

0.71

<1e-3

0.7

<1e-3

0.58

<1e-3

0.7

<1e-3

 Median Tilt-Y - #18

 

−0.25

0.19

−0.012

0.92

0.22

0.16

0.37

<1e-2

  1. For each feature, a Spearman’s rank correlation was calculated in order to examine the similarities between the two distributions.