TABLE V. Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) analysis for the application of the WHO International Biological Reference Standard (WHO/NIBSC 09/188).
| Two-way ANOVA of optical density/cutoff averages (test and dilution) | |||||
| WHO/NIBSC 09/188 | |||||
| Source of variation | SS | DF | MS | F-value | p-value |
| Assay kit | 131.92 | 6 | 21.99 | 9.18 | 0.002 |
| Dilution | 195.27 | 6 | 32.54 | 13.59 | 0.000 |
| Residual | 86.18 | 36 | 2.39 | ||
| Total | 413.37 | 48 | 8.61 | ||
DF: degree of freedom; MS: medium square; SS: sum of squares.