Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health

Name: Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health
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ISBN: 9780781754590

ISBN-10: 0781754593

ISBN-13: 9780781754590

Edition: 2008

Authors: Laurel S. Garzon, Stacey Beth Plichta

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This introductory textbook explores the role of research in health care and focuses in particular on the importance of organizing and describing research data using basic statistics. The goal of the text is to teach students how to analyze data and present the results of evidence-based data analysis.

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Using Research and Statistics in Health Care



Descriptive Statistics: Getting to Know the Data



Building Blocks for Using Inferential Statistics



Inferential Statistics: Finding Relationships in the Data



The Independent t-Test and the Mann-Whitney U-Test: Comparing the Means of Two Unrelated Groups



The Paired t-Test and the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Test: Comparing the Means of Two Related Groups



The One-Way ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis H-Test: Comparing the Means of Three or More Unrelated Groups



The Repeated-Measures ANOVA and the Friedman's ANOVA by Rank: Comparing the Means of Three or More Related Groups



The Pearson and Spearman Correlation Coefficients: Measuring the Association of Two Variables



The Chi-Square Statistic and the McNemar Test: Examining Relationships Between Categorical Variables



Model Building With Linear and Logistic Regression



Writing for Publication



Percent of Total Area of Normal Curve Between a z-Score and the Mean



Critical Values of the Student t-Statistic



Critical Values of "U" for the Mann-Whitney U-Test



Critical Values of "T," the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Statistic



Critical Values of "F" for Testing ANOVA Models



Critical Values of "H" for the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by Rank



Critical Values of Dunn's Q for Nonparametric Multiple Comparison Testing



Exact Distribution of the Friedman's x[subscript r superscript 2] for the Friedman's ANOVA by Rank Comparing Three Related Groups



Significant Values of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient



Critical Values of the Spearman Correlation Coefficient



Significant Values of the Chi-Square Statistic


Glossary


Index