Table 1

Seasonality of age-related cataract hospitalizations and phacoemulsification by gender.


Fisher's κ*
BKS
R2 Autoregression Log Transformed

Male
Female
Both
Male
Female
Both
Male
Female
Both

Age-related cataract hospitalization
18.44
18.68
24.11
0.22
0.25
0.27
0.43
0.52
0.64
Phacoemulsification
16.44
16.67
16.64
0.26
0.27
0.27
0.74
0.79
0.78

* Tests the null hypothesis that the series is Gaussian white noise against the alternative hypothesis that the series contains an added deterministic periodic component of unspecified frequency.

Tests the null hypothesis that the series is white noise.

p < 0.01.

FK, Fisher's κ; BKS, Bartlett's Kolmogorov-Smirnov

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