Table 11

Analysis of variance for linear and quadratic trends

Source

df

SS

MS

F

P

Treatment

2

16.22

8.11

2.13

0.138

Linear

1

16.20

16.20

4.26

0.049

Quadratic

1

0.02

0.02

0.01

0.937

Error

27

102.7

3.8

Total

29

118.9

df, degrees of freedom; F, test statistic; MS, mean squares; SS, sums of squares.

Bewick et al. Critical Care 2004 8:130   doi:10.1186/cc2836