Research Article
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) |
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values based on chi-square test.
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