Table 5 Results of the three-factor ANOVA (FW × PF × MF) on dependent variables Targets.

From: A case study on optimizing helical tomotherapy parameters for small cell lung cancer with extensive pleural metastasis

Dependent Variables

Main effect

Interaction effect

FW

PF

MF

FW x PF

FW x MF

PW x MF

FW x PF

x MF

Freedom

(df1, df2)

(2, 81)

(2, 81)

(2, 81)

(4, 81)

(4, 81)

(4, 81)

(8, 81)

D95%

(F, p)

(4.04, 0.02)

(7.15, 0.01)

(0.34, 0.72)

(0.09, 0.99)

(0.02, 1.00)

(0.16, 0.96)

(0.04, 1.00)

D90%

(F, p)

(8.27, 0.00)

(21.16, 0.0)

(8.26, 0.00)

(0.13, 0.97)

(0.20, 0.94)

(0.35, 0.84)

(0.09, 0.99)

D2%

(F, p)

(23.31, 0.00)

(4.58, 0.01)

(2.10, 0.13)

(0.36, 0.84)

(0.17, 0.95)

(0.01, 1.00)

(0.01, 1.00)

CI

(F, p)

(2.73, 0.07)

(5.24, 0.01)

(0.07, 0.94)

(3.95, 0.01)

(0.77, 0.55)

(0.32, 0.87)

(0.10, 0.99)

HI

(F, p)

(1.79, 0.17)

(0.64, 0.53)

(0.11, 0.89)

(0.08, 0.99)

(0.08, 0.99)

(0.04, 0.99)

(0.01, 1.00)

  1. * CI Conformity index, HI Homogeneity index, F F-value; df1: between-groups freedom; df2: within-groups freedom.
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