Research methods for clinical therapists
Subtitle: applied project design and analysis
By: Carolyn M. Hicks.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780702029981
Subjects: Physical therapy -- Research -- Statistical methods; Physical Therapy Modalities; Evidence-Based Medicine; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care); Research Design; Statistics as Topic -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Research design and statistics : some basic concepts; title: Questionnaires, surveys, and sampling; title: The nature of the data; title: Techniques of descriptive statistics; title: Testing hypotheses; title: Designing your study; title: Sources of error in research; title: Matching the research design to the statistical test; title: Putting the theory into practice; title: Writing up the research for publication; title: Reading published research critically; title: Non-parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs; title: Parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs; title: Non-parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs; title: Parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs; title: Non-parametric and parametric tests for correlational designs; title: Estimation; title: Attitude scales; title: Repertory grid analysis; title: Using statistics in diagnostic and screening tests : receiver operating characteristics; title: Capturing expert opinion : the Delphi technique; title: Capturing the user voice : Thurstone's paired comparison technique; title: Capturing the clinician's view : reliability measures; title: Undertaking systematic reviews.