Soft (0.5–2 keV; left) and hard (2–10 keV; right) X-ray luminosity corrected for absorption vs. SFR calculated combining the UV and IR luminosities (Sect. 3). Red stars are H II galaxies. Light green triangles and dark green circles are Type 1 and 2 Seyfert galaxies, respectively. Blue stars are composite galaxies, orange diamonds are LINERs and blue squares are galaxies without classification from optical spectroscopy. Galaxies from Ranalli et al. (2003) are plotted as gray circles. The solid line is our best linear fit to those LIRGs classified as H II and the Ranalli et al. (2003) galaxies. The dashed lines indicate the  ± 1σ dispersion in this relation.