Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 471-474, September 2010

A 5-year Review of Statistical Methods Presented in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery®

  • Andrew J. Meyr, DPM

      Affiliations

    • Assistant Professor, Department of Podiatric Surgery, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Andy Meyr, DPM, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Department of Surgery, 8th at Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

published online 12 July 2010.

Abstract 

This article presents a review of the statistical analyses used by authors and published in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery® from January 2004 to December 2008. Of the 215 articles reviewed, descriptive statistics were used in 84% and comparative statistics in 68%. The most commonly used comparative statistical tests were Student t test (30%), analysis of variance (14%), the Mann Whitney U test (Wilcoxon rank sum) test (13%), chi-squared analyses (11%), and Fisher's exact test (10%). The aim of this investigation was to review the prevalences of various statistical methods used by foot and ankle surgeons, as reported in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery®, and to serve as a primer of the most common methods used in the analysis of surgical data and the development of a scientific basis for the practice of foot and ankle surgery.

Level of Evidence: 4

Keywords: analysis, evidence-based medicine, primer, statistics

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 Financial disclosure: None reported.

 Conflict of interest: None reported.

PII: S1067-2516(10)00192-4

doi:10.1053/j.jfas.2010.05.005

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 471-474, September 2010

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