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Figure 3- Histogram graph showing the distribution of data for Temperature Decrease
4.1 Body temperature decreases and BCS
The BCS of dogs was assigned using the 1-9 scale: 1.( n = 1, body temperature decrease of 1.4 ° C) 2.( n = 1, body temperature decrease of 1.4 ° C) 3.( n = 3, mean = 2.47, SD = 0.874) 4.( n = 14, mean = 1.54, SD = 0.695) 5.( n = 25, mean = 1.37, SD = 0.826) 6.( n = 19, mean = 1.24, SD = 0.7) 7.( n = 24, mean = 1.44, SD = 0.847) 8.( n = 9, mean = 0.87, SD = 0.612) 9.( n = 3, mean = 0.5, SD = 0.4). The data collected for dogs BCS was considered to be normally distributed from the results of a Shapiro-Wilk test of normality( Figure 4). SPSS was unable to determine the distribution of BCS groups 1 and 2, as it stated that the temperature decrease remained constant for these groups, as n = 1 for both. As the data for BCS is considered ordinal, a Spearman’ s rank correlation coefficient test was run( Figure 5) and revealed a statistically significant correlation( p = 0.012) with a negative correlation coefficient(-0.252). This meant that the higher BCS a patient had, the less of a decrease occurred in their body temperatures. The
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