Table 8

The differences in distributions of the routine marks awarded to participants for the staining of their own in house tumour and those awarded to the UK NEQAS-ICC organising laboratory for staining of the same tumour (February 1995 to June 1998)

Distribution differencesPass rate (scores > 12/20)
Run no.Wilcoxon (Z)p ValueParticipantNEQAS organising lab*
*The scores awarded to the UK NEQAS-ICC organising laboratory for immunochemical staining of participants in house tumours was performed for research purposes only.
29−2.0790.03893%100%
36−2.7520.00697%98%
38−0.1050.91693%98%
39−4.416< 0.000194%97%
40−0.6060.54499%97%
41−5.982< 0.000197%99%
42−0.0260.97987%90%