In vivo measurement of bending stiffness in fracture healing

Table 3 Statistical data of logarithmic transformed bending stiffness data

Sheep	Intercept a from best fit line a + b*x	Gradient b from best fit line a + b*x	r	r²	t	p
SH01	-1,28	0.291	0.989	0.977	16.097	< 0.001
SH02	-0.85	0.274	0.899	0.808	3.552	0.038
SH03	-0.84	0.283	0.942	0.887	6.263	0.002
SH04	-0.79	0.227	0.983	0.967	13.176	< 0.001
SH05	-0.86	0.271	0.966	0.934	9.217	< 0.001
SH06	-2.16	0.346	0.955	0.912	7.194	< 0.001
SH07	-0.86	0.265	0.963	0.928	8.771	< 0.001
SH08	-0.95	0.269	0.954	0.910	7.777	< 0.001
SH09	-0.44	0.232	0.876	0.768	3.151	0.051*
SH10	-1.24	0.274	0.995	0.990	24.049	< 0.001
SH11	-1.54	0.326	0.910	0.829	4.918	0.004
SH12	-1.28	0.297	0.974	0.949	10.533	< 0.001
Mean +/- SD			0.950 ± 0.04	0.905 ± 0.07

* not significant. A linear regression analysis of the logarithmic transformed bending stiffness data versus time. Statistical data are represented in the above table. In all but one sheep, the transformed data showed a high degree of linearity, confirming the logarithmic increase of bending stiffness over time.

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