Table 2.

Number of ovulatory, anovulatory, and inconclusive menstrual cycles detected by BMSW and the thermometer under visual^a and quantitative^b analysis.

Method	Ovulatory	Anovulatory	Inconclusive
Visual thermometer	1	11	3
Visual BMSW	1	8	5
Quantitative (MTM) thermometer	5	9	1
Quantitative (MTM) BMSW	0	14	1

^aMathematical analysis was performed using the quantitative MTM method on Microsoft Excel.

^bVisual analysis was performed by LH and YJ using the criteria for ovulation in Table 1. When these observers disagreed, JDW also made a visual determination and the majority decision was accepted. Temperature charts for visual analysis were constructed using Microsoft Excel.