Ecological apparency, ethnobotanical importance and perceptions of population status of wild-growing medicinal plants in a reserve of south-central Mexico

Table 3 Comparison of importance indicators between a) recent use and use value, b) recent use and frequency of mention and c) frequency of mention and uses per species, all analyzed with a linear regression model (analysis of variance of the regression and correlation)

	Sources	DF	Sum of Square	Mean square	β	F Statistic	P-value	R²
Recent use/Use value	Regression	1	4.5561	4.5561	0.85 p < 0.001	49.4237 (1,50)	5.38E-09	0.497
	Residual	50	4.6092	0.0922
	Total	51	9.1653	0.1797
Recent use/Frequency of mentions	Regression	1	1.9987	1.9987	0.93 p < 0.001	38.5292 (1,50)	1.04E-07	0.435
	Residual	50	2.5938	0.0519
	Total	51	4.5925	0.0900
Frequency of mentions/Uses per specie	Regression	1	0.9069	0.9069	0.44 p < 0.001	15.7538 (1,50)	2.31E-04	0.2396
	Residual	50	2.8784	0.0576
	Total	51	3.7853	0.0742

Recent use: the number of interviewees who used the species in the last year. Uses per species is the number of illnesses for which a species is used

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