Cost of illness for outpatients attending public and private hospitals in Bangladesh

Table 11 Independent-sample t test analysis

		Levene’s test for equality of variances		t-test for equality of means
		F	Sig.	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean difference	Std. Error difference	95 % Confidence interval of the difference
		F	Sig.	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean difference	Std. Error difference	Lower	Upper
Total Direct Medical Cost in USD	Equal variances assumed	0.020	0.889	0.496	250	0.621	0.129	0.260	−0.383	0.642
Total Direct Medical Cost in USD	Equal variances not assumed			0.490	227.084	0.625	0.129	0.263	−0.390	0.648
Total Indirect Cost in USD	Equal variances assumed	20.687	0.000	4.148	250	0.000	57.408	13.840	30.149	84.668
Total Indirect Cost in USD	Equal variances not assumed			4.293	245.672	0.000	57.408	13.374	31.066	83.751

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