A statement reflecting the meaning of derived probability values should be presented. A P value of less than 0.05 is classed as statistically significant. Results Data derived from an experiment or series of experiments is the basis of a scientific report or paper. The data may be presented in the form of graphs or tables which may include results of statistical tests if applied to evaluate the data. Raw data,that is, individual values, should be placed in the Appendix and only referred to in results.
Tables are an easy and neat way of summarising the results.
Tables should stand alone, that is, the reader should be able to understand the contents of the table without referring to the Materials And Methods section. The legends attached to tables and figures should be detailed enough for the table or figure to be intelligible if detached from the report. All figures should be numbered in order of appearance in the text. As a general rule, data presented in tabular form should not be duplicated as a figure but if tabulated data is derived from graphs, then such graphs may then be included. For example, Table 1 may summarise maximum and minimum values whereas Figure 1 may show the graph from which the values were obtained.