. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 11.

Published in final edited form as: Infant Ment Health J. 2008 May 13;29(3):234–258. doi: 10.1002/imhj.20175

TABLE 4.

Results of Binomial Statistics Testing Whether Children’s Emotion, Feeling, and Time Gestures Were Imitations of Adults’ Gestures

		Binomial Test Results
Gesture Category	Conversational Context	Observed	Expected	p (two-tailed)
Emotion	Response/Imitate	1	6.5	<.01
	Initiate, Continue, Reply	12	6.5
	Total	13
Feeling	Response/Imitate	0	2	.125^a
	Initiate, Continue, Reply	4	2
	Total	4
Time	Response/Imitate	0	4	<.01
	Initiate, Continue, Reply	8	4
	Total	8

There were too few instances of feeling/sensation gestures to obtain a valid estimate of statistical significance. Minimum observations to detect statistical significance at the p < .05 level using binomial test is 6.