title: Statistics used in current nursing research.
abstract: Undergraduate nursing research courses should emphasize the statistics most commonly used in the nursing literature to strengthen students' and beginning researchers' understanding of them. To determine the most commonly used statistics, we reviewed all quantitative research articles published in 13 nursing journals in 2000. The findings supported Beitz's categorization of kinds of statistics. Ten primary statistics used in 80% of nursing research published in 2000 were identified. We recommend that the appropriate use of those top 10 statistics be emphasized in undergraduate nursing education and that the nursing profession continue to advocate for the use of methods (e.g., power analysis, odds ratio) that may contribute to the advancement of nursing research.
authors.affiliation: Bellin College of Nursing, 725 South Webster Avenue, PO Box 23400, Green Bay, WI 54305-3400, USA.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zellner
authors.forename: Connie J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Boerst
authors.forename: Wil
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tabb
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011588:Psychology, Educational; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012107:Research Design; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013663:Teaching