Table 3 Summary statistics (mean, standard deviation, and median) of numerical patent indicators (Panel #1) and binary variables (Panel #2), grouped by gender collaboration status.

From: Gender disparity in U.S. patenting

Panel #1: Numerical Variables

Variable

Mean (OW)

Mean (GC)

Mean (OM)

Std. Dev. (OW)

Std. Dev. (GC)

Std. Dev. (OM)

Median (OW)

Median (GC)

Median (OM)

F

Team size

1.179

4.113

2.104

0.489

2.266

1.407

1.000

4.000

4.000

423,167.157***

Claims

15.389

18.850

17.285

10.742

12.052

11.962

15.000

18.000

18.000

5559.118***

Bwd. citations

12.042

23.418

18.937

38.230

109.775

103.908

3.000

5.000

5.000

696.356***

Cited papers

6.224

13.227

4.323

23.767

40.628

21.191

0.000

1.000

1.000

26,195.349***

Cited papers/inventor

5.212

3.647

2.380

20.973

11.883

12.565

0.000

0.200

0.200

3906.592***

Scope (4-digit)

1.994

2.297

2.051

1.258

1.468

1.341

2.000

2.000

2.000

7848.859***

Scope (full-digit)

5.790

8.419

6.382

6.146

8.628

7.284

4.000

6.000

6.000

18,059.037***

Scope per inventor

1.822

0.678

1.318

1.216

0.530

1.104

1.500

0.500

0.500

104,163.403***

Originality

0.642

0.663

0.650

0.244

0.238

0.243

0.720

0.735

0.735

528.867***

Fwd. citations (5-y)

2.079

3.737

3.167

9.088

18.493

16.798

0.000

1.000

1.000

500.000***

Generality (5-y)

0.421

0.450

0.432

0.277

0.268

0.276

0.489

0.500

0.500

585.640***

Disruption (5-y)

0.094

0.065

0.101

0.280

0.231

0.285

0.000

0.000

0.000

1500.574***

Panel #2: Binary Variables

Variable

Count (OW)

Count (GC)

Count (OM)

Chi2

 

Variable

Count (OW)

Count (GC)

Count (OM)

Chi2

Public support

13,773 (18.1%)

112,930 (30.8%)

528,175 (21.9%)

15,152.7***

 

Novelty

48,915 (49.1%)

255,946 (46.4%)

1,501,749 (49.3%)

1602.1***

Top cited

6540 (6.6%)

59,234 (10.7%)

303,939 (10.0%)

1,633.6***

 

Top disruptive

5740 (11.5%)

20,305 (10.1%)

163,055 (9.9%)

123.5***

  1. The last column (F) reports the F-statistic from a one-way ANOVA test comparing the three gender collaboration groups—OW (only women), GC (gender collaboration), and OM (only males).
  2. *, **, and *** indicate p < 0.05, p < 0.01, and p < 0.001, respectively, based on one-way ANOVA tests (Panel #1) or Chi-Squre test of independence (Panel #2).