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. 2020 Feb 4;15(2):e0228077. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228077

Table 4. N-of-1 randomized control trial data from [23].

Patient Consecutive pairs of mean “active vs placebo” differences in 7-item questionnaire Mean SD Serial r Usual P Serial P
9 0.05/-0.22/0.57/0.36 0.19 0.35 0.24 0.10 0.25
18 0.64/1.08/-0.36/0.79/-0.64/1.50 0.50 0.83 -0.49 0.10 0.02
23 1.22/1.07/-0.08/0.50 0.68 0.59 0.38 0.06 0.17
17 -0.08/0.86/1.07/1.15 0.75 0.57 0.41 0.04 0.15
15 0.86/1.43/0.65/1.86 1.20 0.55 -0.42 0.01 <0.01
12 4.29/3.15/0.78/4.49 3.18 1.70 -0.07 0.02 0.01

† Positive means indicate an improvement while taking amitriptyline. The table values in columns 1, 2, and 6 were reproduced from Table 1 on pg 449 of [23].

‡ Based on the data, the usual paired t-test returns one-sided p-values of 0.18 for Patient 9 and 0.05 for Patient 23.