Attitudes toward statistics in medical postgraduates: measuring, evaluating and monitoring

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Regression model of variables associated with students’ attitude toward statistics

Model^*	B	Beta	P value
Constant	2.460		<0.001
Age	−0.154	−0.113	0.003
Year of medical training	0.061	0.039	0.122
Level of statistical education	0.191	0.185	<0.001
Research experience	0.098	0.075	0.041
Mathematics basis	0.329	0.387	<0.001
Computer basis	0.074	0.073	0.057
Specialty†
Clinical, nonacademic	0.159	0.120	0.007
Research, academic	0.198	0.109	0.014
Nonmedical or other	0.291	0.101	0.012

R square of the model is 0.41.
*Age entered the model as a binary variable, Specialty entered the model as 3 dummy variables, and other variables entered the model as continuous variables.
†Reference category was ‘clinical, academic’.

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