Table 1. Prescribing rates for rural and urban practices.

T-test p-value refers to the significance level of differences in the mean number of prescribing rates between rural and urban practices for all considered time period. The p-value of F-test assesses the difference in variances in prescribing rates between rural and urban practices.

	Apr-Jun 2013	Jul-Sep 2013	Oct-Dec 2013	Jan-Mar 2014	Apr-Jun 2014	Jul-Sep 2014	Oct-Dec 2014	Jan-Mar 2015	Apr-Jun 2015	Jul-Sep 2015	Oct-Dec 2015	Jan-Mar 2016
Rural
Mean	5.07	5.08	5.15	5.16	5.16	5.17	5.26	5.28	5.07	5.11	5.26	5.24
Variance	0.84	0.74	0.78	0.78	0.78	0.80	0.77	0.87	0.94	0.94	1.07	1.02
Urban
Mean	5.14	5.19	5.23	5.23	5.34	5.24	5.39	5.33	5.31	5.43	5.50	5.48
Variance	0.62	0.62	0.68	0.65	0.68	0.67	0.65	0.62	0.79	0.69	0.68	0.58
F-test p-value	0.41	0.65	0.72	0.63	0.72	0.64	0.66	0.38	0.65	0.41	0.24	0.14
T-test p-value	0.77	0.64	0.72	0.78	0.44	0.77	0.58	0.83	0.35	0.21	0.36	0.32