Table 3.

The mean±SD of temporal variance 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	0.0059 ± 0.0026	0.0054 ± 0.0023	7.94**
Tree hierarchy	0.0123 ± 0.0123	0.0099 ± 0.0096	8.60**
Global efficiency	4.0240 × 10−4± 1.6335 × 10−4	3.7092 × 10−4± 1.4217 × 10−4	7.83**
Characteristic path length	0.2492 ± 0.0672	0.2362 ± 0.0611	8.66**
Betweenness centrality of ROI #1	0.0444 ± 0.0116	0.0472 ± 0.0099	−10.46**
Betweenness centrality of ROI #6	0.0265 ± 0.0130	0.0245 ± 0.0134	7.96**
Eccentricity of ROI #1	3.7715 ± 0.8264	3.5710 ± 0.6860	13.10**
Eccentricity of ROI #2	3.6906 ± 0.7456	3.5430 ± 0.7025	7.78**
Eccentricity of ROI #16	3.6258 ± 0.7304	3.5008 ± 0.7187	7.44**

*: p < 0.05;

^**: p < 0.01.