Table 2. Follower reactive △R 2% of 2nd to 4th order polynomials w.r.t 1st order. Statistical significance was computed using the Mann-Whitney U test (α = 0.05).
Trial No: | 2nd order | 3rd order | 4th order | p values |
---|---|---|---|---|
4 | 8.58 | 9.57 | 9.91 | |
8 | 8.31 | 10.33 | 10.77 | |
12 | 7.41 | 8.46 | 8.70 | p(2nd ↔ 3rd) > 0.1, |
16 | 9.45 | 10.21 | 10.51 | p(3rd ↔ 4th) > 0.5 |
20 | 9.96 | 11.82 | 12.29 |