Statistics for nursing and allied health. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stacey B. Plichta, Laurel S. Garzon.
• Other Names: Plichta, Stacey Beth, 1965-; Garzon, Laurel S
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : LWW
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 610.73072; Nursing -- Research -- Statistical methods; Medical statistics; Statistics as Topic -- methods; Nursing Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781451163131; 1451163134
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.