. 2017 Feb 10;7(2):10. doi: 10.3390/ani7020010

Table 5.

Effect of the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) class on the skin damage score ⁽¹⁾ of single quarters and whole carcass of Italian heavy pigs (least squares means).

Skin Damage Score	THI Class			SE
Skin Damage Score	1	2	3	SE
Single quarters:
-hind	2.07 ^b	2.26 ^b	2.59 ^a	0.07
-middle	2.56 ^c	2.83 ^b	3.50 ^a	0.08
-front	2.10 ^b	2.14 ^b	2.58 ^a	0.07
Whole carcass	2.75 ^b	2.98 ^b	3.58 ^a	0.08

⁽¹⁾ four-point scale: 1 = none to 4 = severe; ^a^{, b, c}: different superscript letters in the same row are different at p < 0.05. SE: standard error.