Assessment of Statiscal Analysis as a Tool for Interdisciplinary Research
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2018
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Journal of Science and Technology Research
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This study is focused on reviewing and analysing the frequency of use of statistics by researchers across different disciplines. The importance of statistics in planning, collection, presentation, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data as useful and reliable information necessitates its involvement in research in all disciplines. This study serves to provide information on the current level of involvement of statistics in this regard and to sensitize non-users about it. A survey of two ISI and Scopus listed Journals for 2017 in each of various disciplines of the sciences, social sciences, engineering, humanities, education, medical sciences and agricultural sciences was carried out. The use or non-use of statistical applications was the focus of the survey. The chart drawn on the result showed that one of each of the journals in arts (7.1%), history (0%) and the two journals in Religious studies (13.6% and 10.7%), had very low statistics applications. All other disciplines (14 out of the 17 disciplines surveyed) apply statistics more frequently. The ANOVA from the beta regression indicated a highly significant (p < 0.0001) difference in statistics application across the disciplines. The conclusion was that researchers not familiar with the use of statistics should learn from literature and take advantage of the high impact of statistics for better output in their research.