BIVA SOFTWARE 2002, BIVAconfidence file

ANTONIO PICCOLI, MD, DSc, AND GIORDANO PASTORI, MD

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy, E-mail: apiccoli@unipd.it
The usual disclaimer (i.e. no warranty comes with the codes) and restriction (i.e. no profit shall be derived from the codes) apply to this program.

 Workbook's sheets Guide / Groups / Mean graph / Paired data/ Paired graph
Groups
Database with mean impedance vectors of groups of subjects from literature or from your studies.
One row contains statistical parameters of one group. The program uses A to I columns. Columns from J on are free.
Don't change the order of A to I columns.
Hint: in columns from J on, put means and SD of measured impedance and anthropometric variables, like R, Xc, Height, Weight,
BMI, and other data, like age, and organ function indexes, that are useful for group description in articles.
The mean value, the SD of R/H and Xc/H, and their correlation coefficient (columns C to G) must be calculated on individual
subject's data (in a different sheet).
Insert rows or append more rows in the worksheet for additional groups, with a different Group ID code (column A) .
Mean graph
The 95% confidence ellipses are drawn for all groups whose Drawing option cell (column H) in the Groups sheet, contains either 1
(ellipse with a dot indicating the mean vector) or 2 (ellipse with an arrow from the origin to the mean vector).
Ellipses of groups with a blank in the Drawing option cell are not plotted.
Change graph characteristics, and adapt the scale for long vectors (e.g. children's vectors) using Excel tools.
Return to the default graph size with a click on the upper menu bar botton RESET GRAPH.
Two mean vectors, from two independent groups of subjects, can be compared with the two-sample Hotelling's T 2 test. Click on
TEST. A dialog box shows a table with the Group ID codes of plotted ellipses. Two groups can be moved to the right boxes for
test with a click on the arrow bottons. Click the lower right botton TEST to show test statistics: Hotelling's T2 test value with
the corresponding F test and P values, and the Mahalanobis' generalized distance D.
Paired data
Database with mean difference of impedance vectors measured in two conditions in a same group of subjects.
Coordinates of the individual difference vector (dZ/H, or vector displacement) are the differences in both R/H (dR/H) and Xc/H
(dXc/H), which are correlated each other. One row contains statistical parameters of impedance vector displacement of one group.
The program uses A to I columns. Columns from J on are free for the user. Don't change the order of A to I columns.
The mean value, the SD of dR/H and dXc/H and their correlation coefficient (columns C to G) must be calculated on individual
subject's data (in a different sheet).
Paired graph
The 95% confidence ellipses are drawn for groups whose Drawing option cell (column H) in the Paired data sheet, contains
either 1 (ellipse with a dot indicating the mean vector) or 2 (ellipse with an arrow from the origin to the mean vector). Ellipses of
groups with a blank in the Drawing option cell are not plotted.
Change graph characteristics (colors, size, axis scale, legend text, dimension, and position of the graph) using the double click on
graph entities, according to usual Excel rules. Default scale intervals of axes are appropriate for most vector displacements in
adults. Adapt the scale for large vector displacements using Excel tools. Return to the default graph size with a click on the upper
menu bar botton RESET GRAPH.
A mean vector displacement in one group of subjects can be evaluated with the paired one-sample Hotelling's T 2 test. It is a
test of the null hypothesis (Ho) that no vector displacement was observed in the population in the two conditions (i.e. that the
vector of the mean difference is dZ/H= (0, 0), at the origin of the RXc graph). Click on the upper menu bar botton TEST. A
dialog box shows a table containing the Group ID codes of plotted ellipses with test statistics: paired one-sample Hotelling's T2
test value with the corresponding F test and P values, and the Mahalanobis' generalized distance D from zero.

 Exporting graphs
PowerPoint slides: Copy a graph from a BIVAconfidence sheet. Paste in a new PowerPoint slide (open either a layout with title or
empty layout). Make any change you like, e.g. change size, add text labels, arrows, lines, colours, etc.
Figures in text documents, Word files: 1) Copy/Paste directly from Excel BIVA to Word, or 2) Import from PowerPoint to
Word: Prepare a PowerPoint slide, as above, Insert (upper menu bar of Word) in the document line the PowerPoint slide as an
Object (created as a PowerPoint file).

The BIVA software is free. However, we would appreciate an aknowledgment statement in articles using BIVA, with a
reference like the following: Piccoli A, Pastori G: BIVA software. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences,
University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 2002 (available at E-mail:apiccoli@unipd.it).
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HALTERO CALI PRHALTERCALI PREHALTEROCALI PRE HALTERO

6,WEIGHT 6,WEIGH RESIST RESISTE REACTANREACTANCIA FASE ANG
90 71 171.4 216.32 20.32 27.62 7.6
86 83 177.9 187.86 22.86 26.98 6
86 72 200.1 170.18 20.8 20.04 6.4
85 67.5 169.1 214.4 20.34 26.24 7.6
72 79 255.8 182.96 24.58 23.7 6.1
69 65 239.7 182.44 30.4 21.12 8.2
82 47 177.2 265.32 23.06 27.38 8.2
75 61 227.5 240.98 25.78 25.4 6.6
74 82 173.3 175.74 23.44 22.86 8.4
85.5 49 173.4 280.9 23.1 27.86 8.3
80.45 67.65 196.55 211.71 23.47 24.92 7.34
7.27 12.59 32.54 39.18 3.02 2.83 0.97
HALTERO CALI PO HALTERCALI POSHALTEROCALI POST HALTERO P
WEIGTH WEIGTHRESIST RESISTE REACTANREACTANCIA FASE ANGU
91 72 198.6 240.23 22.69 29.32 7.5
87 83 189.7 199.78 24.9 28.9 6.2
88 75 240.8 190.9 21.36 21.3 6.6
84 70 190.9 240.6 24.68 27.8 7.4
74 80 270.3 200.29 27.02 24.9 6.9
68 67 250.4 200.1 32.06 23.3 8.5
80 49 190.8 280.6 25.08 29 8.4
78 63 260.6 250.2 28.73 28.6 7.4
74 82 190.5 190.8 25.68 24 8.2
87 50.5 194.7 300.8 24.29 30 8.2
81.10 69.15 217.73 229.43 25.65 26.71 7.53
7.50 12.08 33.45 39.37 3.04 3.05 0.79
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reactancia resistencia
24 196.55
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RESISTENCIA
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226.5

217.73
216.5
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206.5

196.55
196.5 REACTANCIA
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Reactancia Resistencia
25 211.21
27 229.43

ST EVALUACIONES

229.43

217.73

REACTANCIA
25.5 26 26.5 27 27.5
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