Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care
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Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care

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Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care

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About This Book

Nursing is a growing area of higher education, in which anintroduction to statistics is an essential component. There iscurrently a gap in the market for a 'user-friendly' book which iscontextulised and targeted for nursing. Practical Statistics forNursing and Health Care introduces statistical techniques in such away that readers will easily grasp the fundamentals to enable themto gain the confidence and understanding to perform their ownanalysis. It also provides sufficient advice in areas such asclinical trials and epidemiology to enable the reader to criticallyappraise work published in journals such as the Lancet and BritishMedical Journal.
* Covers all basic statistical concepts and tests
* Is user-friendly - avoids excessive jargon
* Includes relevant examples for nurses, including case studies anddata sets
* Provides information on further reading
* Starts from first principles and progresses step by step
* Includes 'advice on' sections for all of the tests described

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Publisher
Wiley
Year
2013
ISBN
9781118685617
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. PREFACE
  6. FOREWORD TO STUDENTS
  7. 1 INTRODUCTION
  8. 2 HEALTH CARE INVESTIGATIONS: MEASUREMENT AND SAMPLING CONCEPTS
  9. 3 PROCESSING DATA
  10. 4 PRESENTING DATA
  11. 5 CLINICAL TRIALS
  12. 6 INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY
  13. 7 MEASURING THE AVERAGE
  14. 8 MEASURING VARIABILITY
  15. 9 PROBABILITY AND THE NORMAL CURVE
  16. 10 HOW GOOD ARE OUR ESTIMATES?
  17. 11 THE BASIS OF STATISTICAL TESTING
  18. 12 ANALYSING FREQUENCIES
  19. 13 MEASURING CORRELATIONS
  20. 14 REGRESSION ANALYSIS
  21. 15 COMPARING AVERAGES
  22. 16 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE – ANOVA
  23. APPENDICES
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX