Correlation coefficients r_p (orange) and r_s (blue) vs. Δν_min for simulated glitches under hypothesis II, and for three Δν^⋆ cases: left: when all glitches are correlated (Δν^⋆ ∼ 0); middle: about half of them are correlated (Δν^⋆ = 12.39 μHz); right: none of them is correlated (Δν^⋆ = 40 μHz). Shaded regions represent the values of the 70% closer to the median of all realizations. The dashed lines show particular realizations. These simulations used the glitch sizes of PSR J0537−6910 and . In all cases the last points in the plots were calculated using the five largest glitches.