Table 2 Differences in the 5 min FIs of cancer samples among the four institutes.

From: Development of an intraoperative breast cancer margin assessment method using quantitative fluorescence measurements

Institute

Institute

Difference of mean

S.E. of the difference

Z

p-value

Hodges–Lehmann estimator

95% CI

C

D

12.42

6.70

1.853

0.249

0.277

− 0.082

0.851

A

D

7.81

3.72

2.097

0.154

0.426

− 0.131

0.700

B

D

6.93

3.14

2.205

0.122

0.470

− 0.082

1.269

C

A

1.89

5.95

0.317

0.989

0.042

− 0.310

0.372

A

B

− 4.22

3.77

− 1.118

0.678

− 0.214

− 0.775

0.264

C

B

− 8.24

6.28

− 1.312

0.555

− 0.208

− 0.601

0.294

  1. S.E., standard error; Z, Z-value of Steel–Dwass test; CI, confidence interval; FI, fluorescence increase.
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