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A Practical Workbook
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By
Susan Grove, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, Associate Dean and Graduate Advisor, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; Adult Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Grand Prairie, TX
Description
Statistics for Health Care Research: A Practical Workbook is a concise, practical tool that will help you develop confidence in interpreting
the statistical data in health sciences research articles. It features 45 exercises designed to strengthen your understanding of sampling,
measurement, and statistical analysis techniques. It's the only workbook of its kind to include research examples from both the nursing
and the medical literature for a complete perspective on health sciences research.
Contents
1. Identifying Level of Measurement: Nominal
2. Identifying Level of Measurement: Ordinal
3. Identifying Level of Measurement:
Interval/Ratio
4. Understanding Percentages
5. Frequency Distributions with Percentages
6. Cumulative Percentages
and Percentile Ranks
7. Interpreting Histograms
8. Interpreting Line Graphs
9. Identifying Probability and Nonprobability
Sampling Methods
10. Understanding the Sampling Section of a Research Report: Sample Criteria, Sample Size, Refusal Rate, and
Mortality
11. Using Statistics to Describe a Study Sample
12. Using Power Analysis to Determine Sample Size
13.
Understanding Reliability Values of Measurement Methods
14. Understanding Validity Values of Measurement Methods
15. Measurements
of Central Tendency Mean, Median, and Mode
16. Mean and Standard Deviation
17. Mean, Standard Deviation, and 68% of Normal
Curve
18. Mean, Standard Deviation, and 95% and 99% of Normal Curve
19. Determining Skewness of a Distribution
20.
Understanding T Scores
21. Effect Size
22. Scatterplot
23. Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
24.
Understanding Pearson's r, Effect Size, and Percentage of Variance Explained
25. Multiple Correlations I
26. Multiple Correlations
II
27. Simple Linear Regression
28. Multiple Linear Regression
29. t-Tests for Independent Groups I
30. t-Tests
for Independent Groups II
31. t-Tests for Dependent Groups
32. Significance of Correlation Coefficient
33. Standard
Error of the Mean: 95th Confidence Interval
34. Standard Error of the Mean: 99th Confidence Interval
35. Standard Error
of a Percentage and 95th Confident Interval
36. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) I
37. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) II
38.
Post Hoc Analyses Following ANOVA
39. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with Confidence Intervals
40. Chi Square I
41.
Chi Square II
42. Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient
43. Mann-Whitney U Test
44. Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs
Signed-Ranks Test
45. Specificity and Sensitivity
Index
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 368 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-0226-0
ISBN-10: 1-4160-0226-X
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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