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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Oral Sci. 2013 May 4;121(4):355–362. doi: 10.1111/eos.12052

Table 2.

Total number of the micro-bars for each cross-section size and estimation of sample size at a specified confidence level and error using QI Macros.

Cross-sectional
area
1×1 mm2 1×2 mm2 1×3 mm2

Plasma
treated
Control Plasma
treated
Control Plasma
treated
Control
Total number of micro-bars 40 28 35 27 10 10

Predicted sample size 33 21 25 17 18 22

Confidence level (%) 90 90 90 90 90 90

Error (MPa) ± 5 ± 4 ± 4 ± 4 ± 4 ± 4