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Table 5 Statistical Comparison of the relative percentage error in the approximations to glucose effectiveness and insulin sensitivity, produced from the LGMM, NLGMM and Minimal Model

From: Modelling the effects of glucagon during glucose tolerance testing

  

LGMM

NLGMM

MinMod

 

Noise level

Parameter

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

p-value

0%

sG

0

1.7362

-1.2291

49.1232

0

0.0238

0.0031

 

sI

0

1.5644

10.5997

40.3733

0

0.0091

< 0.0001

5%

sG

-6.2099

30.8770

-13.2109

73.9800

-5.8340

34.3679

0.0041

 

sI

-7.7208

40.1055

16.6060

52.5382

-5.1386

38.8835

< 0.0001

10%

sG

-6.7471

44.0449

-13.6528

83.1426

-3.3342

44.1309

0.0001

 

sI

-7.1037

69.7317

12.6253

69.7497

-7.6116

71.9373

< 0.0001

  1. The medians of each dataset and the interquartile range (IQR) are presented here and the p-values produced from the Kruskal-Wallis test at the 95% confidence level that tests if the data from each model is obtained from the same distribution