. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Microbiol Methods. 2012 Sep 4;91(2):231–239. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.08.016

Table 2.

Variability in fluorescence intensity due to size of area and location where dust sample is collected.

	Adjacent Area Same Size 1×1 vs. 1×1m²	Adjacent Area Different Sizes 1×1 vs. 2×2m²	Location Bed, BR^a Floor, LR^b Floor
Variance^*	0.0073	0.0093	0.0125
95% Confidence Interval^c	0.0072 to 0.0075	0.0091 to 0.0094	0.0124 to 0.0126
% of Total Variability^d	3.6%	4.5%	6.1%

BR, bedroom

LR, TV/Living room

Residual variance component estimate in the linear mixed effects model after accounting for taxa-to-taxa variability, home-to-home variability, and their interaction.

95% percentile confidence intervals based on 5000 parametric bootstrap samples

(Residual variance / Total variance) × 100%