Table 1.

Statistical table detailing the data structure, type of statistical test and the test statistic or power of each inferential statistic used

Ref	Figure	Data distribution	Test	Power/test statistic
a		Normal	Linear mixed effects	−1.361 ± 16.870
b	1e	Normal	Linear regression	R² = 0.57
c			Linear regression	R² = 0.52
d			Nonlinear curve fit—sigmoid function/BIC weighting	R² = 0.90/Sigmoid BICw = 1
e			Nonlinear curve fit—sigmoid function/BIC weighting	R² = 0.88/Sigmoid BICw = 1
f	1f	Normal	Linear regression	R² = 0.54
g			Linear regression	R² = 0.45
h			Nonlinear curve fit—sigmoid function/BIC weighting	R² = 0.67/Sigmoid BICw = 1
i			Nonlinear curve fit—sigmoid function/BIC weighting	R² = 0.90/Sigmoid BICw = 0.02
j	1h	Normal	General linear model	Diff: 0.48 ± 0.06
k	2c	Normal	Linear regression	Slope: 0.92 ± 0.01, R² = 0.93
l	2d	Non-normal	Wilcoxon signed rank	z = 4.37
m	2d	Non-normal	Wilcoxon signed rank	z = 4.35
n	2f	Circular	Rayleigh Z	Z = 0.47
o	3c	Normal	Linear mixed effects	Diff: −0.070 ± 0.003
p	3d	Normal	Linear mixed effects	Diff: −20.941 ± 1.125
q	3e,f	Normal	General linear model	6.13 ± 0.54
r	3g	Normal	Linear mixed effects	Diff: 0.14 ± 0.05
s	4a	Normal	General linear model	0.84 ± 0.17
t	4b	Circular	Circular correlation	r = 0.88
u	4c	Normal	Linear regression	Slope: 0.73 ± 0.04
v				Slope: 0.91 ± 0.05
w				Slope: 1.1 ± 0.06
x	4e	Circular	Rayleigh Z	Z = 57.75
y	4g (top)	Non-normal	Friedman	χ² = 29.93
z			Dunn post hoc pairwise	Diff: −0.25 ± 0.18^{^a}
aa				Diff: −0.28 ± 0.21^{^a}
ab				Diff: 0.01 ± 0.08^{^a}
ac			Wilcoxon signed rank	−0.40 ± 0.13^{^a}
ad				−0.13 ± 0.23^{^a}
ae				−0.39 ± 0.20^{^a}
af			Dunn post hoc pairwise	Diff: 0.04 ± 0.29^{^a}
ag				Diff: 0.0. ± 0.29^{^a}
ah				Diff: 0.07 ± 0.10^{^a}
ai			Wilcoxon signed rank	0.03 ± 0.31^{^a}
aj				−0.17 ± 0.41^{^a}
ak				−0.05 ± 0.26^{^a}
al	4g (bottom)	Non-normal	Friedman	χ² = 23.29
am			Dunn post hoc pairwise	Diff: 0.00 ± 0.05^{^a}
an				Diff: −0.01 ± 0.04^{^a}
ao				Diff: 0.01 ± 0.01^{^a}
ap				Diff: −0.04 ± 0.03^{^a}
aq				Diff: −0.02 ± 0.03^{^a}
ar				Diff: 0.00 ± 0.01^{^a}
as	5f	Normal	General linear model	Diff: 0.024 ± 0.01

↵a Differences for nonparametric tests are expressed as median ± IQR.
Letters in the “Ref” column refer to those denoted in superscript after each statistic in the main text.