Research Article

The Investigation of Laparoscopic Instrument Movement Control and Learning Effect

Table 3

Means, ANOVA, and Tukey HSD test results of movement time and throughput.

 Movement time (ms)Throughput (bits/s)
 LevelMeana valueLevelMeana value

Trials12636.1A
10.94
0.00012.3676A
8.96
0.000
22465.8B22.5357B
32413.4B32.5776B,C
42347.9B42.6735B,C
52364.1B52.6083B,C
62366.1B62.6420B,C
72353.5B72.6738C
82348.8B82.6561B,C
92391.7B92.6166B,C
102391.1B102.6150B,C

A, B, or C is group divided by Tukey HSD tests. The means in the same group are not significantly different by the test.