Time series analysis of age related cataract hospitalizations and phacoemulsification

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 1 Seasonality of age-related cataract hospitalizations and phacoemulsification by gender.

	Fisher's κ*			BKS^†			R² Autoregression Log Transformed
	Male	Female	Both	Male	Female	Both	Male	Female	Both
Age-related cataract hospitalization	18.44^‡	18.68^‡	24.11^‡	0.22^‡	0.25^‡	0.27^‡	0.43	0.52	0.64
Phacoemulsification	16.44^‡	16.67^‡	16.64^‡	0.26^‡	0.27^‡	0.27^‡	0.74	0.79	0.78

* Tests the null hypothesis that the series is Gaussian white noise against the alternative hypothesis that the series contains an added deterministic periodic component of unspecified frequency.
^† Tests the null hypothesis that the series is white noise.
^‡ p < 0.01.
FK, Fisher's κ; BKS, Bartlett's Kolmogorov-Smirnov

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