Perception of Dental Professionals towards Biostatistics

Table 4

Analysis of perception of knowledge by gender, career focus, and academic position.

				I am able to		I am able to conduct
		Biostatistics is a difficult		design my own		my own statistical
		subject		research projects		analyses with
				with confidence		confidence
			value		value		value
Gender	Male	80 (56.3)	0.03	53 (37.3)	0.06	29 (20.4)	0.01
	Female	82 (70.7)		22 (18.9)		16 (13.8)
Academic position	Staff	46 (56.8)	0.1	32 (39.5)	<0.001	24 (29.6)	<0.001
	PG students	109 (61.6)		48 (27.1)		23 (13.0)
Career focus	Clinical academic	114 (76.5)	<0.001	44 (29.5)	<0.001	21 (14.1)	0.005
	Clinical nonacademic	40 (88.9)		8 (17.8)		6 (13.3)
	Research	4 (6.9)		28 (48.3)		24 (41.4)

values based on chi-square test.