Table 2.

Statistical analysis

Data structure	Type of test or value reported	Confidence intervals
Normal distribution	Student’s t test (Figs. 3, 7, 8)	*p< 0.05, **p< 0.01, ***p< 0.001
Normal distribution	One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post hoc (Figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8)	*p< 0.05, **p< 0.01, ***p< 0.001
Cumulative distribution	Kruskal-Wallis test (Fig. 2: three data sets)	***p< 0.001
Cumulative distribution	Mann-Whitney test (Fig. 3: two data sets)	***p< 0.001
Nonlinear best-fit curve	R 2 (Fig. 5)	Not applicable