Table 1.

p-values from MANOVA and those obtained from permutation tests comparing the eight carpal and the first metacarpal bones in men versus women employing the first 17 GPS coordinates. For the lunate and triquetrum, where the corresponding p-values exceeded 0.05, more than 17 GPS coordinates were required to attain a p < 0.05, as further indicated in figure 4.

	Right wrist		Left wrist
Bone	MANOVA	Permutation test	MANOVA	Permutation test
Capitate	0.0226	0.0493	0.0148	0.0416
Hamate	0.0065	0.0097	0.0048	0.0089
Lunate	0.0379	0.0210	0.0532	0.0766
Pisiform	0.0428	0.0365	0.0102	0.0201
Scaphoid	0.0135	0.0255	0.0012	0.0120
Trapezoid	0.0004	0.0087	0.0022	0.0136
Trapezium	0.0007	0.0101	0.0023	0.0140
Triquetrum	0.0015	0.0124	0.0449	0.0836
Metacarpal 1	0.0137	0.0245	0.0015	0.0129