Okwonu, Friday Zinzendoff and Ahad, Nor Aishah and Apanapudor, Joshua Sarduana (2024) Analysis of Neonates Gender and Mode of Delivery using Pearson’s Correlation. Science World Journal, 19 (1). pp. 50-57. ISSN 2756391X

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Abstract

This paper investigates whether neonate gender determines the mode of maternal delivery. The Pearson correlation technique and the t-statistic were applied to ascertain whether neonate gender is a determinant of the mode of maternal delivery. The neonate rate of delivery based on gender and mode of delivery was also investigated. The study relied on secondary data from a general hospital in Nigeria. The study consists of 6,491 live births from 2010 to 2017. The analysis showed that 74.9% accounted for normal births while 25.1% for surgical births. The gender analysis showed that 47.5% of males and 52.5% of females were normal births while 47.8% of males and 52.2% of females were delivered via surgical mode. The study showed that 47.6% of males and 52.4% of females were delivered for the period under review. The correlation value ??¯= 0.5 suggests that neonates irrespective of gender can be delivered via a normal or surgical procedure. The analysis based on the t-statistic failed to reject the null hypothesis implying that neonate gender does not determine the mode of maternal delivery but maternal lifestyle during pregnancy

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Normal delivery, Surgical delivery, Neonate, Gender, Pearson correlation
Subjects:	R Medicine > RD Surgery
Divisions:	School of Quantitative Sciences
Depositing User:	Mr. Izhar Hj. Hashim
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2026 05:07
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2026 05:07
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/34797

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