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. 2025 Mar 3;25:104. doi: 10.1186/s12886-025-03947-7

Table 2.

Mean, standard deviations (SD), 95% range, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (KS) for the normality of the data AND non-parametric ANOVA test

Parameters MEAN (SD) (µm) CONFIDENCE INTERVAL 95% (µm) KS ANOVA
C (2,-2) 0 D 0.017 (0.213) [-0.013, 0.047] < 0.001* 0.951
1 D 0.021 (0.226) [-0.011, 0.053] < 0.001*
2 D 0.015 (0.192) [-0.012, 0.042] < 0.001*
3 D 0.014 (0.157) [-0.009, 0.036] < 0.001*
4 D 0.007 (0.158) [-0.016, 0.029] < 0.001*
5 D 0.005 (0.135) [-0.014, 0.024] < 0.001*
C (2,0) 0 D 1.249 (1.747) [1.004, 1.493] < 0.001* < 0.001*
1 D 1.544 (1.902) [1.278, 1.811] < 0.001*
2 D 1.826 (1.757) [1.580, 2.071] < 0.001*
3 D 1.948 (1.390) [1.753, 2.143] < 0.001*
4 D 2.335 (1.493) [2.126, 2.544] < 0.001*
5 D 2.278 (1.312) [2.095, 2.462] < 0.001*
C (2,2) 0 D -0.159 (0.362) [-0.209, -0.108] 0.005* < 0.001*
1 D -0.129 (0.366) [-0.180, -0.078] < 0.001*
2 D -0.090 (0.318) [-0.135, -0.046] < 0.001*
3 D -0.066 (0.271) [-0.104, -0.028] < 0.001*
4 D -0.035 (0.271) [-0.073, 0.003] < 0.001*
5 D -0.020 (0.227) [-0.052, 0.011] 0.033*
C (3,-1) 0 D 0.024 (0.082) [0.013, 0.036] 0.094 0.988
1 D 0.026 (0.091) [0.013, 0.039] 0.200
2 D 0.026 (0.074) [0.016, 0.037] 0.200
3 D 0.023 (0.063) [0.014, 0.032] 0.028*
4 D 0.025 (0.067) [0.015, 0.034] 0.200
5 D 0.022 (0.052) [0.015, 0.029] 0.098
C (3,1) 0 D < 0.001 (0.060) [-0,008, 0.009] 0.200 < 0.001*
1 D -0.005 (0.067) [-0.014, 0.005] 0.057
2 D 0.002 (0.059) [-0.007, 0.010] 0.200
3 D 0.007 (0.057) [-0.001, 0.015] 0.200
4 D 0.011 (0.066) [0.001, 0.020] 0.055
5 D 0.011 (0.060) [0.002, 0.019] 0.018*
C (4,0) 0 D 0.039 (0.050) [0.032, 0.462] 0.020* < 0.001*
1 D 0.036 (0.056) [0.029, 0.044] 0.061
2 D 0.016 (0.049) [0.010, 0.023] 0.023*
3 D 0.002 (0.041) [-0.004, 0.007] 0.038*
4 D -0.004 (0.048) [-0.011, 0.002] 0.028*
5 D -0.008 (0.041) [-0.013, -0.002] 0.002*
C (6,0) 0 D -0.001 (0.013) [-0.003, 0.001] 0.015* 0.714
1 D -0.001 (0.014) [-0.003, 0.001] < 0.001*
2 D -0.001 (0.013) [-0.003, 0.001] < 0.001*
3 D -0.001 (0.009) [-0.002, 0.000] 0.008*
4 D -0.002 (0.009) [-0.004, -0.001] < 0.001*
5 D -0.001 (0.006) [-0.002, -0.001] 0.030*

Denote statistically significant values (p-value < 0.05), mark with an asterisk *