Table 6. Stronger supervisory teams and supervisors who were located in a strategic research centre were more likely to attract students in the highest quartile of academic merit.

Student is in top quartile of academic merit	Supervisor score is maximum
	Yes	No
	Supervisor in strategic research centre: Yes
Yes	34 (17.2)	6 (3.0)
No	71 (35.9)	32 (16.2)
	Supervisor in strategic research centre: No
Yes	6 (3.0)	2 (1.0)
No	16 (8.1)	31 (15.7)

Data are count (percentage of total sample). See text for results from chi-squared statistics and corresponding P-values.