Table 2.

Statistical analysis

Data structureType of test or value reportedConfidence intervals
Normal distributionStudent’s t test (Figs. 3, 7, 8)*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Normal distributionOne-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post hoc (Figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8)*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
Cumulative distributionKruskal-Wallis test (Fig. 2: three data sets)***p < 0.001
Cumulative distributionMann-Whitney test (Fig. 3: two data sets)***p < 0.001
Nonlinear best-fit curveR 2 (Fig. 5)Not applicable