Table 8. Analysis of associations between CBCT stage and maturation indices using crosstabs.

CBCT stage, Midpalatal suture maturation stage using cone-beam computed tomography images; HWM, hand and wrist method; CVM, cervical vertebrae method; Hellman, Hellman's dental age; Age, chronological age; γ, gamma as an association measure for the crosstabs; τ-b, Kendall's tau (τ)-b as an association measure for the crosstabs.

^‡Significant difference by contingency coefficients (p < 0.0001, highly significant).