Table 1 |
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Summary of study results |
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Experiment |
No. of Qigong Practitioners |
No. of Exps. |
Mean* CFE Ratio |
St Dev* |
t-statistic |
2-sided p |
|
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Qigong/Sham |
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Pilot study |
3 |
4 |
1.041 |
0.046 |
1.845 |
0.162 |
|
Formal study |
9 |
14 |
1.099 |
0.167 |
2.333 |
0.036 |
|
Replication |
8 |
30 |
1.070 |
0.534 |
0.740 |
0.465 |
|
Pooled data |
18 |
48 |
1.076 |
0.440 |
1.238 |
0.222 |
|
Sham/Sham |
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Pilot study |
0 |
4 |
0.966 |
0.126 |
-0.526 |
0.635 |
|
Formal study |
0 |
14 |
1.037 |
0.155 |
0.905 |
0.382 |
|
Replication |
0 |
30 |
0.955 |
0.489 |
-0.491 |
0.627 |
|
Pooled data |
0 |
48 |
0.979 |
0.412 |
-0.347 |
0.730 |
|
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*Mean and standard deviation based on logarithmic values. |
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Yount et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:5 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-4-5 |
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