highly significantp -value < 0.05
Output of the ordered logistic regression showed that the infectious status has a highly significant effect on the scores ( p -value < 0.05) and there is good agreement between all of the permutation tests performed (ANOVA Type, Wilks’ Lambda, Lawley Hotelling, and Bartlett Nanda Pillai Test statics) when applying a nonparametric comparison of multivariate samples as reported in Burchett et al.