Research Article

Use of Artificial Neural Network in Determination of Shade, Light Curing Unit, and Composite Parameters’ Effect on Bottom/Top Vickers Hardness Ratio of Composites

Table 6

Multiple comparisons of LCUs.

Multiple Comparisons

Dependent Variable:    Bottom-top ratio
Tukey HSD

(I) LCU(J) LCUMean Difference (I-J)Std. ErrorSig.95% Confidence Interval
Lower BoundUpper Bound

HalogenBluephase-3,64002,83935,576-11,04513,7651
Valo-11,68362,83935,000-19,0887-4,2785
Elipar-21,48352,83935,000-28,8887-14,0784

BluephaseHalogen3,64002,83935,576-3,765111,0451
Valo-8,04372,83935,028-15,4488-,6386
Elipar-17,84362,83935,000-25,2487-10,4385

ValoHalogen11,68362,83935,0004,278519,0887
Bluephase8,04372,83935,028,638615,4488
Elipar-9,79992,83935,004-17,2050-2,3948

EliparHalogen21,48352,83935,00014,078428,8887
Bluephase17,84362,83935,00010,438525,2487
Valo9,79992,83935,0042,394817,2050

: the mean difference is significant at the  ,05 level.