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Table 5 Tukey’s post hoc analysis for all pairwise comparisons among archwire sizes for bracket slot size 0.022 in.

From: Torque efficiency of square and rectangular archwires into 0.018 and 0.022 in. conventional brackets

Comparison

Mean difference

HSD statistic

p value

Tukey’s 95 % CI

0.019 × 0.019 vs 0.019 × 0.025

4.88

23.91

<0.001

[4.16 , 5.59]

0.019 × 0.019 vs 0.019 × 0.026

5.74

28.12

<0.001

[5.02 , 6.45]

0.019 × 0.025 vs 0.019 × 0.026

0.86

4.21

<0.001

[0.14 , 1.58]

  1. HSD honest significant difference, CI confidence interval