Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care
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About This Book

Now in its second edition, Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care provides a sound foundation for nursing, midwifery and other health care students and early career professionals, guiding readers through the often daunting subject of statistics 'from scratch'. Making no assumptions about one's existing knowledge, the text develops in complexity as the material and concepts become more familiar, allowing readers to build the confidence and skills to apply various formula and techniques to their own data.

The authors explain common methods of interpreting data sets and explore basic statistical principles that enable nurses and health care professionals to decide on suitable treatment, as well as equipping readers with the tools to critically appraise clinical trials and epidemiology journals.

  • Offers information on statistics presented in a clear, straightforward manner
  • Covers all basic statistical concepts and tests, and includes worked examples, case studies, and data sets
  • Provides an understanding of how data collected can be processed for the patients' benefit
  • Contains a new section on how to calculate and use percentiles

Written for students, qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals, Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care is a hands-on guide to gaining rapid proficiency in statistics.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2021
ISBN
9781119698555
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Preface
  6. Foreword to Students
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Health Care Investigations
  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. Appendix A: Table of Random Numbers
  24. Appendix B: t‐Distribution
  25. Appendix C: χ2‐Distribution
  26. Appendix D: Critical Values of Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
  27. Appendix E: Critical Values of the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
  28. Appendix F: Mann–Whitney U ‐test Values (Two‐Tailed Test) P = 0.05
  29. Appendix G: Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Test for Matched Pairs
  30. Appendix H: F‐Distribution
  31. Appendix I: Tukey Test
  32. Appendix J: Symbols
  33. Appendix K: Leicestershire ECT Study Data: Subgroup with Depressive Illness
  34. Appendix L: How Large Should Our Samples Be?
  35. Bibliography
  36. Index
  37. End User License Agreement