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Table 2 Statistics: residual concentrations of starch (measured by optical density after reaction with iodine) in the R. rubrum culture after 2 h exposition in the static magnet field (SMF)

From: Application of static and impulse magnetic fields to bacteria Rhodospirillum rubrum VKM B-1621

Nos. of the data groups

Ranges of the SMF, mT

Number of wells (number of the data in the group, n)

OD

Average mean (x)

Sample variance (s2)

1

0.0–0.5

18

3.01

0.285256

2

0.6–1.0

18

3.27

0.103128

3

1.1–3.0

18

3.25

0.252374

4

3.6–16.0

18

3.27

0.144751

5

16.0–85

18

3.22

0.165431

6

120–173

6

3.15

0.228619

\({\text{s}}_{\text{A}}^{2}\)

0.182701

   

\({\text{s}}_{\text{G}}^{2}\)

0.116315

   

F = \({\text{s}}_{\text{A}}^{2} /{\text{s}}_{\text{G}}^{2}\)

1.57075

   

F0.95

2.315689

   
  1. F < F0.95 thus, there is no difference between the groups of the data at the 95% level of degrees of freedom