Nisha Puthiyedth, Carlos Riveros, Regina Berretta, Pablo Moscato
Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes through Integrated Study of Alzheimer's Disease Affected Brain Regions
PloS one
statistics mainly used biological research verify clinicians researchers findings feelings gives scientific validity inferences pakistan educational curriculum developed way students interested entering field biological sciences study mathematics grade 10 therefore due fragile background mathematical skills pakistani medical professionals feel adequate base understand basic concepts statistical techniques try use research read scientific article aim study assess attitude medical faculty towards statistics questionnaire containing 42 closeended 4 openended questions related attitude knowledge statistics distributed among teaching faculty dow university health sciences duhs one hundred sixtyseven filled questionnaires returned 374 faculty members response rate 447 fortythree percent respondents claimed introductive level statistics courses 63 respondents strongly agreed good researcher must training statistics 82 faculty favour strongly agreed agreed statistics really useful research 17 correctly stated statistics science uncertainty half respondents accepted problem writing statistical section article 64 subjects indicated statistical teaching methods main reasons impression difficulties 53 faculty indicated coauthorship statistician depend upon hisher contribution study gender show significant difference among responses however senior faculty showed higher level importance use statistics difficulties writing result section articles compared junior faculty study showed low level knowledge high level awareness use statistical techniques research exhibited good level motivation training