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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2011 Jan 26;197(1):21–31. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.01.019

Table 1.

P-values for 2-way ANOVA main effects corresponding to data shown in Fig 3.

Fig.# Test Parameter Measured P value for
Main effect
of sex		 P value for
Main effect of
cort		 Coefficient of
variation
3A OF Distance Ratio 0.006 0.0046 0.55
3A OF Time in the center 0.0496 0.019 0.59
3C OF Averaged Z values 0.0170 0.0082 0.61
3A EPM Time in Open Arms 0.672 0.0334 1.56
3A EPM Ratio of entries 0.5998 0.0019 0.98
3C EPM Averaged Z values 0.6291 0.0076 0.69
3A NSF Latency to eat 0.0012 0.0921 0.42
3C NSF Z value 0.0012 0.0921 0.42
3D EMOTIONALITY Z-SCORE AVERAGED Z-VALUES 0.0188 <0.0001 0.16

The significant main effect of sex provides an integrated means to report results with test-to-test variability. Combining normalized measures, emotionality z-scores augmented the overall statistical significance of the corticosterone main effect compared to each test separately.