Table 4. Summary of modela of micronuclei frequency, (MN/1000 cells)1/2, for rural West Bengal study group consuming rice as a staple.
| Covariate | Coefficient | Confidence Limits for Coefficient (2.5% & 97.5%) | Standard Error | t value | p (>|t|) | Sig. Codeb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Intercept) | 1.151e+00 | 1.085e+00 | 3.336e-02 | 34.492 | <2.2E-16 | *** |
| 1.216e+00 | ||||||
| Gender (Male)c | −1.113e-02 | −6.873e-02 | 2.930e-02 | −0.380 | 0.704 | |
| 4.647e-02 | ||||||
| Cooked Rice Arsenic | 1.683e-03 | 1.292e-03 | 1.988e-04 | 8.464 | 4.59E-16 | *** |
| 2.074e-03 | ||||||
| Tobacco-User | 6.310e-02 | 6.641e-04 | 3.176e-02 | 1.987 | 0.048 | * |
| 1.256e-01 | ||||||
| (Cooked Rice Arsenic)2 | −6.990e-07 | −1.012e-06 | 1.592e-07 | −4.391 | 1.43E-05 | *** |
| −3.861e-07 |
aResidual standard error = 0.2666 on 412 degrees of freedom; Multiple-R2 = 0.2264; Adjusted R2 = 0.2189; F-statistic = 30.14 on 4 & 412 degrees of freedom, p-value < 2.2e-16; Shapiro-Wilk normality test for (MN)1/2 W = 0.9951; p = 0.2085.
bSignificance codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ‘ 1.
cGender listed for interest only; it is not (p = 0.7043) a significant predictor of MN1/2.