Performance of dental students, orthodontic residents, and orthodontists for classification of midpalatal suture maturation stages on cone-beam computed tomography scans – a preliminary study

Table 3 Wilcoxon pairwise comparison of deviations from the benchmark classification

Pairwise group comparison	n	mean	SD	median	68%—CI		p
Students	10	0.980	0.512	1.000	0.600	1.514	0.24
Orthodontic residents	10	0.780	1.000	0.300	0.086	1.658
Students	10	0.980	0.512	1.000	0.600	1.514	0.027^*
Orthodontists	10	0.440	0.470	0.200	0.000	1.000
Orthodontic residents	10	0.780	1.000	0.300	0.086	1.658	0.63
Orthodontists	10	0.440	0.470	0.200	0.000	1.000

n number of patients, SD standard deviation, p p-value, CI confidence interval
^*p-value < 0.05

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