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Table 3 Analysis of variance of morphological facial measurements of Bono and Ewe participants

From: A cross-sectional study of the anthropometry of the face among Bonos and Ewes in the Bono region of Ghana

Measurements

Tribe

N

Mean (mm)

SD (mm)

p-value

Mid-facial height 1 (n-st)

Bono males

87

68.94a

9.79

0.023

Bono females

65

64.43a

11.85

 

Ewe males

75

65.37

8.02

 

Ewe females

64

66.00

8.72

 

Mid-facial height 2 (g-sn)

Bono males

87

53.81a

8.66

0.014

Bono females

65

49.47a

9.97

 

Ewe males

75

53.10

10.95

 

Ewe females

64

49.92

10.22

 

Mandibular height (st-gn)

Bono males

87

37.38

6.77

0.010

Bono females

65

34.36c

6.78

 

Ewe males

75

37.70c

8.81

 

Ewe females

64

34.66

7.72

 

Maxillary height (sn-st)

Bono males

87

22.38e

5.59

0.047

Bono females

65

21.15

5.68

 

Ewe males

75

20.17e

4.69

 

Ewe females

64

20.67

4.73

 

Mandibular width (go-go)

Bono males

87

94.69e

13.65

0.044

Bono females

65

91.16

12.91

 

Ewe males

75

89.26e

11.02

 

Ewe females

64

90.79

12.21

 

Mouth width (ch-ch)

Bono males

87

49.82e

8.06

0.042

Bono females

65

48.16

8.36

 

Ewe males

75

46.60e

6.50

 

Ewe females

64

47.35

6.53

 
  1. N number of participants, SD standard deviation, mm millimetre, n-st nasion to stomion, g-sn glabella to subnasale, st-gn stomion to gnathion, sn-st subnasale to stomion, go-go gonion to gonion, ch-ch cheilion to cheilion. a, c, e = identical subscript letters have differences existing between the mean values of two tribes by means of a post hoc test (the p values are only the result of the ANOVA and not the post hoc test). Statistical significance at p < 0.05