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Vital Statistics: an introduction to health science statistics draws on real world, health-related and local examples, with a broad appeal to the Health Sciences student , it demonstrates how an understanding of statistics is useful both in the real world, and in statistics exams.
Written in recognition of Health Sciences courses which require knowledge of statistical literacy, this book guides the reader to an understanding of why, as well as how and when to use statistics.
It explores:
How data relates to information, and how information relates to knowledge
How to use statistics to distinguish information from disinformation
The importance of probability, in statistics and in life
That inferential statistics allow us to infer from samples to populations, and how useful such inferences can be
How to appropriately apply and interpret statistical measures of difference and association
How qualitative and quantitative methods differ, and when it’s appropriate to use each
The special statistical needs of the health sciences, and some especially health science relevant statistics
The vital importance of computers in the statistical analysis of data, and gives an overview of the most commonly used analyses
Chapter 1: A Fool-Resistant Introduction to statistics
Chapter 2: Statistics as information
Chapter 3: Descriptive statistics
Chapter 4: Probability
Chapter 5: Inferential statistics, sampling and hypothesis testing
Chapter 6: Significance testing, beyond significance testing and experimental design
Chapter 7: Measures of differences (1): t-tests and the chi-square test
Chapter 8: Measures of differences (2): analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 9: Measures of association (1): correlation
Chapter 10: Measures of association (2): regression
Chapter 11: Qualitative research methods
Chapter 12: Statistics in the health sciences
Chapter 13: Reliability, validity and norms
Chapter 14: Statistics and the computer
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