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4.7.3 Statistical analysis<br />

It is essential to establish, first of all, whether the difference in the duplicate results is<br />

significant.<br />

4.7.3.1 Validity of the duplicate analyses<br />

Calculations were carried out by using the one sample Student’s t-test with the null<br />

hypo<strong>thesis</strong> that the mean of the duplicate analytical results is equal to zero. All the<br />

duplicate results, for both fibre and fines of dry leaf in Table 4.17 were thus examined.<br />

The variance, standard deviation and standard error of the mean are shown in Table 4.22.<br />

The data for green leaf, top (where only fibre data are available), rind and stalk given in<br />

Tables 4.18 – 4.21 were similarly examined and the statistical results are also shown in<br />

Table 4.22.<br />

The results from the Student’s t-test show that the duplicate results are not different.<br />

Table 4.22. One sample Student t-test results for duplicate analyses of Brix-free water.<br />

Dry leaf<br />

Standard Standard error<br />

Sample Size Mean Variance deviation of mean<br />

BFW1-BFW2 72 -0.2383 0.6064 0.7787 0.09177<br />

95% confidence interval for mean: (-0.4213, -0.05535)<br />

Green leaf<br />

Standard Standard error<br />

Sample Size Mean Variance deviation of mean<br />

BFW1-BFW2 72 -0.2092 0.7129 0.8443 0.09951<br />

95% confidence interval for mean: (-0.4076, -0.01076)<br />

Top<br />

Standard Standard error<br />

Sample Size Mean Variance deviation of mean<br />

BFW1-BFW2 36 -0.3603 0.715 0.8456 0.1409<br />

95% confidence interval for mean: (-0.6464, -0.07418)<br />

Rind<br />

Standard Standard error<br />

Sample Size Mean Variance deviation of mean<br />

BFW1-BFW2 72 -0.2322 0.5892 0.7676 0.09046<br />

95% confidence interval for mean: (-0.4126, -0.05185)<br />

Stalk<br />

Standard Standard error<br />

Sample Size Mean Variance deviation of mean<br />

BFW1-BFW2 72 -0.1849 0.8944 0.9457 0.1115<br />

95% confidence interval for mean: (-0.4071, 0.03737)

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