Table 3 Results of ANOVA and Tukey HSD tests for radioactive element concentrations across the aquatic ecosystems in Nasser Lake.
Source of variation | SS | Degrees of freedom | Mean Squares | F-static | P-value | F crit | Treatments pair | Tukey HSD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Statistic | p-value | Inferfence | ||||||||
226Ra | ||||||||||
Between Groups | 147.8 | 3 | 49.27 | 28.96 | \(1.05\times {10}^{-9}\) | 2.87 | Sediment vs. Water | 10.40 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 |
Within Groups | 61.24 | 36 | 1.7 | Sediment vs. Plant | 10.79 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | |||
Total | 209.04 | 39 | Sediment vs. Fish | 11.06 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | ||||
Water vs. Plant | 0.39 | 0.8999947 | Insignificant | |||||||
Water vs. Fish | 0.66 | 0.8999947 | Insignificant | |||||||
Plant vs. Fish | 0.27 | 0.8999947 | Insignificant | |||||||
232Th | ||||||||||
Between Groups | 1140.21 | 3 | 380.07 | 52.79 | \(2.92\times {10}^{13}\) | 2.87 | Sediment vs. Water | 14.63 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 |
Within Groups | 259.19 | 36 | 7.2 | Sediment vs. Plant | 13.94 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | |||
Total | 1399.41 | 39 | Sediment vs. Fish | 14.95 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | ||||
Water vs. Plant | 0.69 | 0.8999947 | Insignificant | |||||||
Water vs. Fish | 0.32 | 0.8999947 | Insignificant | |||||||
Plant vs. Fish | 1.02 | 0.8832123 | Insignificant | |||||||
40 K | ||||||||||
Between Groups | 247,633.59 | 3 | 82,544.53 | 132.44 | \(1.67{\times 10}^{-19}\) | 2.87 | Sediment vs. Water | 24.37 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 |
Within Groups | 22,436.9 | 36 | 623.25 | Sediment vs. Plant | 12.51 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | |||
Total | 270,070.49 | 39 | Sediment vs. Fish | 23.88 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | ||||
Water vs. Plant | 11.80 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | |||||||
Water vs. Fish | 0.48 | 0.8999947 | insignificant | |||||||
Plant vs. Fish | 11.32 | 0.0010053 | **p < 0.01 | |||||||