Question

I am an Amazon researcher comparing different characteristics in 5 species of frogs that live in very different environments. I use the Amazon green frog as my control since there is lots of data on this particular frog and it lives on the rainforest floor. I then compare the other frogs to this control frog. I am looking at length of back leg, the distance between the eyes (center of one eye to the center of the other eye) and the degree of webbing on the front foot.

I collect all my data on 50 of each species of frog and then do unpaired t-test comparisons of each characteristic in the 4 test species to the same characteristic in the control species (Amazon green frog - AGF). The results from my t-test comparisons are listed below:

AGF /brown swamp frog – length of back leg   p=0.006

AGF/yellow tree frog – distance between eyes   p=0.059

AGF/red river frog – webbing   p=0.035

AGF/spotted stone frog – webbing   p=0.004

AGF/spotted stone frog – length of back leg    p=0.0006

AGF/brown swamp frog – distance between eyes   p=0.152

AGF/ red river frog – distance between eyes    p=0.211

AGF/yellow tree frog – length of back leg   p=0.081

AGF/spotted stone frog – distance between eyes   p=0.007

AGF/yellow tree frog – webbing    p=0.01E-15

AGF/brown swamp frog – webbing   p=0.003

AGF/red river frog – length of back leg   p=0.256

As you can see I am not very organized, so you need to arrange these data into a clear, concise and understandable table (Table 1) that allows the reader to quickly comprehend what I have done. Also, somehow denote, within the table, the statistically significant comparisons using 0.05 as the point of significance. Generally, the independent variable is used to label rows and the dependent labels columns

Answer 1

I think this will be the best table to describe the entire study

Null Hypothesis: The AGF is similar in a particular choice of study with other species.

Comparison of AGF with 4 species
	distance between eyes	length of back leg	webbing
spotted stone frog	0.007	0.0006	0.004
brown swamp frog	0.152	0.006	0.003
yellow tree frog	0.059	0.081	1.00E-17
red river frog	0.211	0.256	0.035
Colour Chart: Green: Null Hypothesis rejected, Red: Null Hypothesis accepted
Level of Significance - 0.05

As I have said, I have sorted the dependent variables and I have drawn the following inferences

1. The Spotted Stone Frog is way different than the African Green Frog

2. Brown Swamp Frog has a similar distance of eyes but different in rest of the cases

3. yellow tree frog is similar in distance between eyes and length of back-leg but different in webbing (way different)

4. red river frog is pretty much similar in all the cases, this particular species is totally similar to African Green Frogs