Plichta, Stacey Beth,  1965- <br/><br/>
Statistics for nursing and allied health / 
Stacey B. Plichta, Laurel S. Garzon. 
 - Philadelphia :  Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health,  c2009. 
 - xii, 420 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Building blocks for using inferential statistics -- Inferential statistics : finding relationships in the data -- The independent T-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test: comparing the means of two unrelated groups -- The paired T-test and the Wilcoxon matched-pairs test:  comparing the means of two related groups -- The one-way Anova and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test: comparing the means of three or more unrelated groups -- The repeated-measures Anova and the Friedman's Anova by rank : comparing the means of three or more related groups -- The Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients : measuring the association of two variables -- The chi-square statistic and the McNemar test : examining relationships between categorical variables -- Model building with linear and logistic regression -- Writing for publication. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780781754590 (pbk.) 0781754593 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008024783 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nursing--Research--Statistical methods.<br/>Medical statistics.<br/>Statistics as Topic--methods.<br/>Nursing Research.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.73072  / PLI-S 2009 400832