Statistics for nursing and allied health
By: Stacey B. Plichta, Laurel S. Garzon.
Contributors: Garzon, Laurel S.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780781754590
Subjects: Nursing -- Research -- Statistical methods.; Medical statistics.; Statistics as Topic -- methods.; Nursing Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Using research and statistics in health care; value: Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data; value: Building blocks for using inferential statistics; value: Inferential statistics : finding relationships in the data; value: The independent T-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test: comparing the means of two unrelated groups; value: The paired T-test and the Wilcoxon matched-pairs test:  comparing the means of two related groups; value: The one-way Anova and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test: comparing the means of three or more unrelated groups; value: The repeated-measures Anova and the Friedman's Anova by rank : comparing the means of three or more related groups; value: The Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients : measuring the association of two variables; value: The chi-square statistic and the McNemar test : examining relationships between categorical variables; value: Model building with linear and logistic regression; value: Writing for publication.