Munro's statistical methods for health care research / Stacey B. Plichta, Elizabeth A. Kelvin.
by
Plichta, Stacey Beth; Kelvin, Elizabeth A
; Munro, Barbara Hazard.
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BookPublisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013Edition: 6th ed.Description: vii, 567 p. : ill.ISBN: 9781451115611.Other title: Statistical methods for health care research.Subject(s): Nursing -- Research -- Statistical methods | Medical care -- Research -- Statistical methods | Health Services Research -- methods | Statistics as TopicDDC classification: 610.72/7
Contents:
Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Key principles of statistical inference -- Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- Measuring the differences between the means two unrelated group means : independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of two related groups : paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of three or more unrelated groups : one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-tests -- Differences among the means of three or more unrelated groups defined by two or more independent variables : N-way ANOVA -- Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by rank -- Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) -- Measuring the association of two variables : Pearson and Spearman correlation -- Examining cross tabulations : the Chi-square statistic and the McNemar test -- Logistic regression -- Linear regression and regression diagnostics -- Factor analysis -- Path analysis -- Structural equation modeling -- Writing for presentation and publication.
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