Research Article

Mechanical Bed for Investigating Sleep-Inducing Vibration

Table 1

Statistical results of sleep latencies using the Smirnov-Grubbs test.

No exc.Horizontal excitationVertical excitation

Amplitude02.45.07.52.45.07.5
Ave. latency [min]14.710.19.012.410.89.911.0
Min. latency [min]5.14.03.29.02.04.43.5
Max. latency [min]21.918.3 (29.7)18.0 (26.6)15.615.217.621.0
Std. deviation6.15.34.14.56.15.77.1
Variance34.023.814.917.833.428.644.2
Conf. interval [%]4.24.52.83.53.43.54.3
Sample number1071081199
Number of exclusion2323121
Outliers in exclusion0110000
Number of experiments12101211121110

Values in parentheses are omitted as outliers.