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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop. 2016 Apr;149(4):533–542. doi: 10.1016/j.ajodo.2015.09.026

Table II.

Measurement of the consistency between regions of registration and intra- and inter-observers reproducibility. Bland-Altman means (in mm), standard deviation and 95% limits of agreement (LoA, in mm) for comparison between corresponding x, y, z coordinates from corresponding landmarks (1 to 6).

Results from Bland-Altman: mean (in mm) and 95% LoA (in mm)
Landmark 1 Landmark 2 Landmark 3 Landmark 4 Landmark 5 Landmark 6
mean LoA mean LoA mean LoA mean LoA mean LoA mean LoA
Between
regions of
registration
MAX Obs1× PIZ
Obs1 R1
0.08 −0.38; 0.54 0.04 −0.51; 0.59 0.05 −0.48; 0.57 0.05 −0.45; 0.55 0.01 −0.37; 0.39 0.04 −0.50; 0.59
MAX Obs1× PIZ
Obs1 R2
0.01 −0.37; 0.39 0.02 −0.65; 0.60 0.00 −0.42; 0.43 0.03 −0.54; 0.61 0.04 −034; 0.42 0.06 −0.47; 0.58
MAX Obs2x PIZ
Obs2 R1
0.04 −0.39; 0.46 −0.06 −0.66; 0.53 −0.01 −0.46; 0.43 −0.03 −0.59; 0.52 0.06 −0.34; 0.46 0.04 −0.44; 0.53
MAX Obs2x PIZ
Obs2 R2
0.05 −0.51; 0.60 0.01 −0.53; 0.55 0.01 −0.47; 0.50 0.01 −0.55; 0.57 0.00 −0.52; 0.52 0.09 −0.48; 0.67
Intra-Observer MAX R1 × MAX
R2 Obs1
0.03 −0.38; 0.43 0.04 −0.37; 0.45 0.00 −0.48; 0.48 −0.03 −0.43; 0.36 0.01 −0.38; 0.40 −0.03 −0.44; 0.39
PIZ R1 × PIZ R2
Obs1
−0.02 −0.47; 0.43 −0.02 −0.53; 0.48 −0.03 −0.54; 0.47 −0.05 −0.46; 0.36 0.04 −0.27; 0.36 −0.01 −0.34; 0.32
MAX R1 × MAX
R2 Obs2
0.01 −0.46; 0.48 0.00 −0.52; 0.52 0.02 −0.49; 0.52 −0.03 −0.67; 0.62 0.04 −0.36; 0.43 0.00 −0.42; 0.41
PIZ R1 × PIZ R2
Obs2
0.06 −0.50; 0.62 0.07 −0.65; 0.80 0.05 −0.55; 0.64 0.02 −0.50; 0.54 −0.03 −0.52; 0.47 0.05 −0.51; 0.60
Inter-Observer MAX Obs1× MAX
Obs2 R1
0.04 −0.44; 0.52 0.04 −0.46; 0.54 0.00 −0.51; 0.50 −0.01 −0.53; 0.50 0.00 −0.36; 0.37 0.04 −0.50; 0.59
MAX Obs1× MAX
Obs2 R2
0.03 −0.36; 0.42 0.00 −0.48; 0.48 0.01 −0.58; 0.60 −0.01 −0.62; 0.60 0.03 −0.41; 0.47 −0.01 −0.43; 0.41
PIZ Obs1× PIZ
Obs2 R1
−0.04 −0.63; 0.55 −0.07 −0.82; 0.67 −0.06 −0.57; 0.46 −0.10 −0.66; 0.46 0.06 −0.33; 0.45 −0.03 −0.58; 0.53
PIZ Obs1× PIZ
Obs2 R2
0.04 −0.52; 0.60 0.03 −0.71; 0.77 0.02 −0.59; 0.63 −0.03 −0.56; 0.49 −0.02 −0.41; 0.38 0.03 −0.55; 0.61