Table 2.

The mean±SD of the temporal mean of MST parameters with significant group differences and associated t values.

	mean (SD) of two groups		t -value
	ASD group	TD group
Betweenness centrality of MST	0.6371 ± 0.0173	0.6401 ± 0.0159	−7.13**
Tree hierarchy	0.3379 ± 0.0232	0.3337 ± 0.0202	6.54*
Global efficiency	0.3405 ± 0.0054	0.3412 ± 0.0056	−3.98*
Betweenness centrality of ROI #1	0.2418 ± 0.1003	0.2670 ± 0.1026	−9.72**
Eccentricity of ROI #1	7.8138 ± 0.5652	7.6500 ± 0.6198	12.67**

^*: p < 0.05;

^**: p < 0.01.