Table 3 Types of statistical analysis software, statistical procedure and form for presenting data for undergraduate medical students who are using statistical analysis software (n = 127)
Variables | Overall, N = 1271 |
|---|---|
Which statistical software programs you are using? (You can choose more than one response), n (%) | |
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) | 91 (71.7) |
Excel | 64 (50.4) |
R | 3 (2.4) |
Stata | 8 (6.3) |
Minitab | 2 (1.6) |
GraphPad Prism | 3 (2.4) |
Other (SAS, Chimera or Google Form) | 3 (2.4) |
Which of the following statistical procedure you are using during analysis? (You can choose more than one response), n (%) | |
Linear regression | 48 (37.8) |
Logistic regression | 30 (23.6) |
Log rank test | 7 (5.5) |
Cox regression | 5 (3.9) |
Chi-squared test, Fisher exact test or McNemar test | 34 (26.8) |
Student's t-test, Mann–Whitney U test, Paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test | 20 (15.7) |
one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Repeated measures ANOVA or Friedman test | 13 (10.2) |
Correlation using Pearson's correlation (r), Spearman's (p), or Spearman/Kappa (Agreement) | 18 (14.2) |
In which form you are presenting your data? (You can choose more than one response), n (%) | |
Table | 95 (74.8) |
Histogram | 31 (24.4) |
Frequency polygon | 9 (7.1) |
Frequency curve | 16 (12.6) |
Line chart/ graph | 32 (25.2) |
Cumulative frequency diagram | 8 (6.3) |
Scatter/ Dot diagram | 10 (7.9) |
Bar diagram | 26 (20.5) |
Pie/ Sector diagram | 20 (15.7) |
Pictogram/ Picture diagram | 6 (4.7) |
Map diagram/Spot Map | 2 (1.6) |
Box plot | 1 (0.8) |