Table 3: Estimation of standard deviation of ln-transformed A405nm by restricted maximum likelihood method within the framework of a nested ANOVA.

Variance components

Estimation

% Variability

Analyst

0.0000

0.00

Day

0.0314

11.01

Plate

0.0037

1.30

Subgroup

0.0000

0.00

Sample

0.2013

70.58

Error

0.0487

17.08

 

 

 

Total Variance

0.2852

 

Standard Deviation

0.5340

 

%Variability = (Estimation of variance component/Total variance) × 100