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Table 14 The overlap of general and medicinal families and genera found in the Southwest Amazon area of Peru and in Mali, as contingency tables, with the significance of each table and whether the odds ratio and Jaccard similarity is significantly greater than the odds ratio and Jaccard similarity for the general flora. Odds ratios and Jaccard similarities that are greater than the corresponding values for the general flora (Tables 2 and 3) are italicized.

From: A quantitative synthesis of the medicinal ethnobotany of the Malinké of Mali and the Asháninka of Peru, with a new theoretical framework

Eczema family comparison

  

Peru

  
  

present

absent

  

Mali

present

4

13

17

 
 

absent

5

443

448

 
  

9

456

465

 
 

Odds ratio:

27.262

 

p value:

8.7749 × 10-05

    

p value (OR > general OR):

0.28537

 

Jaccard similarity:

0.182

 

p (Jaccard > general):

1