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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Ophthalmol. 2009 May 7;93(8):1057–1063. doi: 10.1136/bjo.2009.157875

Table 2.

Reproducibility (variance components) ratios with 95% confidence intervals among the tested methods

CET vs TD-OCT
CO vs TD-OCT
CET vs CO
Parameter Lower Estimated Upper Lower Estimated Upper Lower Estimated Upper
Global mean 0.272 0.370 0.505 0.259 0.353 0.481 0.733 0.953 1.239
 Quadrants
  Temporal 0.186 0.246 0.325 0.219 0.290 0.384 0.905 1.180 1.540
  Superior 0.227 0.287 0.363 0.212 0.269 0.341 0.804 1.008 1.264
  Nasal 0.273 0.347 0.441 0.323 0.410 0.522 0.978 1.230 1.545
  Inferior 0.429 0.546 0.694 0.448 0.570 0.724 0.771 0.988 1.266
 Clock hour
  1 0.402 0.524 0.683 0.354 0.462 0.603 0.716 0.899 1.129
  2 0.433 0.574 0.760 0.472 0.625 0.826 0.837 1.089 1.417
  3 0.414 0.542 0.709 0.426 0.557 0.728 0.825 1.027 1.277
  4 0.423 0.537 0.683 0.440 0.559 0.711 0.986 1.241 1.563
  5 0.474 0.602 0.765 0.522 0.663 0.842 0.940 1.195 1.520
  6 0.341 0.463 0.630 0.312 0.424 0.576 0.706 0.915 1.186
  7 0.451 0.599 0.797 0.488 0.647 0.859 0.828 1.080 1.409
  8 0.385 0.509 0.672 0.432 0.570 0.753 0.861 1.120 1.456
  9 0.258 0.342 0.453 0.259 0.343 0.455 0.772 1.004 1.306
  10 0.247 0.330 0.440 0.211 0.282 0.377 0.656 0.856 1.116
  11 0.598 0.774 1.002 0.596 0.771 0.998 0.791 0.997 1.256
  12 0.472 0.664 0.935 0.388 0.546 0.767 0.637 0.822 1.060

When a ratio is equal to one, reproducibilities (variance components (VCs)) are identical. Centred Each Time (CET) and Centred Once (CO) methods showed statistically significantly smaller VC ratios than time-domain optical coherence tomography (TD-OCT) except for 11 o’clock with CET. There was no statistically significant difference in reproducibility (VC) ratios between CET and CO.