PURPOSE
& METHODS: Papers in six kinds of medical journals from Korea were examined on statistical methods to know what kinds of statistical methods had been used. We also tried to know how much Korean statistical program, dBSTAT can cover those statistical methods.
RESULTS
Out of 841 papers, statistical methods were used in 415(49.4%) ones. Cumulative number of statistical methods is 869. According to the category of statistical methods, they were classified as following: Distribution analysis 6(0.7%), comparative statistics 577(66.4%), correlation analysis 66(7.6%), regression analysis 106(12.2%), classification analysis 3(0.3%), survival analysis 48(5.5%), genetic analysis 10(1.2%), and etc 53(6.5%).
CONCLUSION
From above result, it can be said that dBSTAT can cover 92.7% of whole statistical methods in this study.
These results also can be used for the goal of curriculum of medical statistics for undergraduate, graduate course and resident training program.
