Table 1. Analysis of Variance of the noise levels in the NICU of the hospital.

Acoustic Parameter	Statistical		Hourly Integration			Shift Integration
	x̄	S	F	P**	SC	F	p**	SC
LAeq	64.00	3.62	10.94	0.00	0.269**	16.44	0.01	-0.381**
LAmax	76.04	5.73	25.04	0.00	0.343**	26.23	0.00	-0.467**
LAmin	54.84	2.61	0.83	0.70†	0.102*	0.03	0.97†	-0,032
LA10	67.13	3.95	12.05	0.00	0.273**	6.12	0.00	-0.403**
LA50	61.77	3.16	5.88	0.00	0.205**	2.91	0.06†	-0.295*
LA90	57.95	2.83	2.53	0.00	0.134**	0.97	0.39†	-0,177

x̄: Average noise level.

S standard deviation.

F statistic from the ANOVA. p statistical meaning for the variance (P-Value from the ANOVA).

SC Spearman correlation coefficient.

*p <0.05.

**p <0.01.

† means that there is no significant difference between the average of one level and another with a confidence level of 99%.