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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Mar 23:10.1002/jmri.26011. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26011

TABLE 2.

Repeatability Statistics for Normal Subjects (N = 10–12)

ADC (N = 10) T1 (B1 corrected variable flip angle) fibroglandular tissue (N = 10) T1 (B1 corrected variable flip angle) adipose tissue (N = 12)
Kendall’s tau (age vs. mean) −0.360 −0.494 −0.260
Kendall’s tau (difference vs. mean) 0.378 −0.067 0.303
Kendall’s tau, P-value (age vs. mean) 0.178 0.0593 0.271
Kendall’s tau, P-value (difference vs. mean) 0.156 0.862 0.197
95% CI (percentage of mean) 5.25 × 10−5 (3.91%) 47.8 (5.04%) 21.3 (5.00%)
Root mean square deviation, (percentage of mean) 7.07 × 10−5 (5.27%) 75.9 (8.00%) 34.2 (8.03%)
Within-subject standard deviation (percentage of mean) 5.00 × 10−5 (3.72%) 53.7 (5.66%) 24.2 (5.68%)
Repeatability value (r), (percentage of mean) 1.56 × 10−4 (11.59%) 167.0 (17.62%) 75.2 (17.68%)