Stability prediction of early orthopedic treatment in Class III malocclusion: morphologic discriminant analysis

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Table 8 Discriminant analysis of predictive success variables in class III early orthopedic treatment

	Classification results
Groups	Number of cases	Predicted group membership				Constants (Fisher’s linear discriminant function)	Predictive variables	Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients
		Relapse group (RG)		Success group (SG)
		No.	%	No.	%
Relapse group (RG)	19	15	78.9	4	21.1	−33.361	Upper posterior sagittal length	1.117
Success group (SG)	12	2	16.7	10	83.3	−29.897	Upper anterior sagittal length	−1.266