Statistics for nursing and allied health / Stacey B. Plichta, Laurel S. Garzon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, c2009.Description: xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780781754590 (pbk.)
- 0781754593 (pbk.)
- 610.73072 22 PLI-S 2009 400832
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.