Table 2 Descriptive statistics of transition propensities across defined aois in ASC and NT children and Mann–Whitney test results comparing the two groups in sensory social routine trials.

From: Modeling gaze behavior with continuous-time markov chains to investigate social attention dynamics in autism

Trial

Transition

Group

Mean

Median

SD

Minimum

Maximum

 

Mann–Whitney U

Statistics

p

FDR p

Effect size

Sheriff

Adultactivity—Childface

ASC

3.47e-4

0.00000

4.89e-4

0.00

0.00125

172

0.001

0.002

0.50145

NT

0.00263

0.00114

0.00446

0.00

0.02000

  

Adultface—Adultactivity

ASC

0.01262

0.01262

0.01185

0.00

0.04343

130

 < 0.001

0.008

0.62319

NT

0.00499

7.12e-4

0.01549

0.00

0.08408

  

Adultface—Childface

ASC

1.60e-4

0.00000

2.73e-4

0.00

9.03e-4

150

 < 0.001

0.005

0.56667

NT

4.83e-4

3.69e-4

3.61e-4

0.00

0.00116

  

Childface—Adultactivity

ASC

2.74e-4

2.27e-4

2.70e-4

0.00

0.00104

227

0.032

0.057

0.34348

NT

1.29e-4

9.44e-5

1.42e-4

0.00

5.11e-4

  

Childface—Adultface

ASC

7.71e-5

0.00000

1.44e-4

0.00

4.73e-4

165

 < 0.001

0.002

0.52174

NT

1.82e-4

1.70e-4

1.20e-4

0.00

4.99e-4

  

Childface—Childactivity

ASC

0.00964

0.00800

0.01027

6.99e-4

0.04773

127

 < 0.001

0.002

0.63188

NT

0.00311

3.76e-4

0.00583

0.00

0.02607

  

Childface—Objectleft

ASC

0.00148

1.48e-4

0.00493

0.00

0.02387

223

0.024

0.048

0.35362

NT

2.44e-4

3.77e-5

6.63e-4

0.00

0.00357

  

Objectleft—Childface

ASC

0.00167

0.00152

0.00166

0.00

0.00599

120

 < 0.001

0.004

0.65362

NT

0.01059

0.01059

0.01303

0.00

0.05988

  

Objectright—Adultface

ASC

0.02640

0.02640

0.02254

7.39e-4

0.11765

114

 < 0.001

0.003

0.66957

 

NT

0.03100

0.03100

0.01271

7.27e-4

0.08237

    

Objectright—Childface

ASC

4.39e-5

4.39e-5

7.95e-5

0.00

3.95e-4

119

 < 0.001

0.016

0.65507

NT

3.94e-4

3.94e-4

4.01e-4

0.00

0.00236

  

Witches

Adultface—Objectright

ASC

0.00256

3.29e-4

0.00828

0.00

0.04000

156

 < 0.001

0.007

0.54783

NT

1.36e-4

0.00000

3.55e-4

0.00

0.00178

  

Childface—Adultface

ASC

1.37e-4

0.00000

1.99e-4

0.00

6.13e-4

206

0.009

0.038

0.40290

NT

5.11e-4

2.85e-4

5.91e-4

0.00

0.00206

  

Childface—Objectleft

ASC

4.32e-4

3.12e-4

4.62e-4

0.00

0.00195

211

0.014

0.039

0.38841

NT

1.92e-4

8.28e-5

2.58e-4

0.00

0.00106

  

Objectleft—Adultface

ASC

1.16e-4

0.00000

1.94e-4

0.00

7.29e-4

205

0.008

0.038

0.40580

NT

4.23e-4

4.69e-4

4.47e-4

0.00

0.00168

  

Objectright—Adultface

ASC

0.00603

0.00386

0.00966

0.00

0.04429

211

0.014

0.039

0.38841

NT

0.01012

0.01010

0.01712

5.52e-4

0.09823

  

Objectright—Childface

ASC

1.11e-4

0.00000

2.84e-4

0.00

0.00137

210

 < 0.001

0.007

0.39130

NT

0.00000

0.00000

0.00000

0.00

0.00000

  
  1. Only transitions showing statistically significant differences between ASC and NT children based on the original p-values (< 0.05) are reported here; the corresponding FDR-adjusted p-values are also provided for reference. The full set of comparisons, including both uncorrected and FDR-adjusted p-values, is available in Supplementary Tables S13 (Sheriff) and S14 (Witches).