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. 2023 Jul 25;15(7):e42463. doi: 10.7759/cureus.42463

Table 4. Influence of pre-treatment factors on the difference in PLUTSS scores (a linear regression analysis).

Independent Variables: These are the factors being evaluated for their impact on the difference in Pediatric Lower Urinary Tract Symptom Score (PLUTSS).

Unstandardized Coefficients (B): These represent the raw coefficients as computed directly from the data.

Standard Error (SE): This measures the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, most commonly of the mean.

Standardized Coefficients (Beta): These are the coefficients obtained when the independent and dependent variables are standardized before the analysis.

T-Value: The T-value measures the size of the difference relative to the variation in the data.

Significance (p-value): The p-value represents the likelihood that the observed effect occurred by chance if the null hypothesis is true. A p-value less than 0.05 is generally considered statistically significant. Here, the correlation between Pre-treatment PLUTSS Score and the PLUTSS Score difference is statistically significant (*p<0.05), suggesting that Pre-treatment PLUTSS Score has a significant impact on the PLUTSS Score difference.

Independent Variables Unstandardized Coefficients (B) Standard Error (SE) Standardized Coefficients (Beta) T-Value Significance (p-value)
Initial Uroflowmetry -1.365 1.181 -0.107 -0.689 0.496
Clinical Presentation 1.705 2.551 0.095 0.624 0.431
Pre-treatment PLUTSS Score -1.021 0.557 -0.454 -2.332 0.027*