Statistics for health care professionals an introduction
Title:
Statistics for health care professionals an introduction
Author:
Scott, Ian, 1964-
ISBN:
9781848600652
9781849209960
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Publication Information:
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 241 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Statistics for health care research ; The statistical approach: when should it be applied? / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- Measuring, sampling and error / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Questionnaires / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- The studies / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Descriptive statistics ; Displaying data / Kathie Moore, Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Hypothesis testing ; Distributions and probabilities ; Making predictions ; Testing for differences between means ; Errors and ANOVAs ; Not normal ; Non-parametric tests ; Tests for association (1) Chi-square ; Tests for association (2) Correlation and regression ; Analysing data from systematic reviews ; Choosing test statistics / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Appendices. A guide to analysing statistics critically / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- Statistical tables ; Answers to exercises ; The common symbols and abbreviations used in statistics / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu.
Abstract:
Focusing on quantative approaches to investigating problems this title introduces the basics rules and principles of statistics, encouraging the reader to think critically about data analysis and research design, and how these factors can impact upon evidence-based practice.
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