Table I.
Statistics by missed appointments
| Descriptive Statistics by Missed Appointments: Time and Cost of Travel | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 (Did not miss appts) N = 30 |
1 (Missed appts) N = 8 |
Test Statistic | |||||
| a | b | c | a | b | c | ||
| Time (minutes) | 120 | 210 | 240 | 101 | 165 | 188 | F1,35= 2.45, P = 0.126 |
| Cost (shillings) | 488 | 1,000 | 1,400 | 275 | 900 | 1,150 | F1,36= 0.56, P = 0.459 |
| Descriptive Statistics by Missed Appointments: Income | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 (Did not miss appts) N = 30 |
1 (Missed appts) N = 8 |
Test Statistic | ||||||
| a | b | c | a | b | c | |||
| Personal Income (shillings) | 25 | 0 | 2,250 | 7,750 | 750 | 1,750 | 4,750 | F1,22= 0.01, P = 0.927 |
| Household Income (shillings) | 24 | 2,000 | 4,750 | 7,750 | 2,500 | 3,000 | 7,000 | F1,21= 0.18, P = 0.672 |
The Wilcoxon test was used above, with a, b, c representing the lower quartile a, the median b, and the upper quartile c for continuous variables. N is the number of values.