Choi Eunsil, Lyu Jiyoung, Park Jinyoung, Kim Hae-Young
BK21 PLUS Program in Embodiment: Health-Society Interaction, Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
BK21 PLUS Program in Embodiment: Health-Society Interaction, Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. ; Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Health Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
J Periodontal Implant Sci. 2014 Dec;44(6):288-92. doi: 10.5051/jpis.2014.44.6.288. Epub 2014 Dec 31.
The purposes of this study were to assess the trend of use of statistical methods including parametric and nonparametric methods and to evaluate the use of complex statistical methodology in recent periodontal studies.
This study analyzed 123 articles published in the Journal of Periodontal & Implant Science (JPIS) between 2010 and 2014. Frequencies and percentages were calculated according to the number of statistical methods used, the type of statistical method applied, and the type of statistical software used.
Most of the published articles considered (64.4%) used statistical methods. Since 2011, the percentage of JPIS articles using statistics has increased. On the basis of multiple counting, we found that the percentage of studies in JPIS using parametric methods was 61.1%. Further, complex statistical methods were applied in only 6 of the published studies (5.0%), and nonparametric statistical methods were applied in 77 of the published studies (38.9% of a total of 198 studies considered).
We found an increasing trend towards the application of statistical methods and nonparametric methods in recent periodontal studies and thus, concluded that increased use of complex statistical methodology might be preferred by the researchers in the fields of study covered by JPIS.
本研究旨在评估包括参数法和非参数法在内的统计方法的使用趋势,并评价近期牙周病研究中复杂统计方法的应用情况。
本研究分析了2010年至2014年间发表在《牙周与种植科学杂志》(JPIS)上的123篇文章。根据所使用的统计方法数量、应用的统计方法类型以及所使用的统计软件类型计算频率和百分比。
大多数已发表的文章(64.4%)使用了统计方法。自2011年以来,JPIS上使用统计学的文章比例有所增加。基于多次计数,我们发现JPIS中使用参数法的研究比例为61.1%。此外,仅6篇已发表的研究(5.0%)应用了复杂统计方法,77篇已发表的研究(占所考虑的198项研究总数的38.9%)应用了非参数统计方法。
我们发现近期牙周病研究中统计方法和非参数方法的应用呈增加趋势,因此得出结论,在JPIS所涵盖的研究领域中,研究人员可能更倾向于增加复杂统计方法的使用。