Munro's Statistical Methods for Health Care Research

Munro's Statistical Methods for Health Care Research by Stacey Plitcha Kellar and Elizabeth A. Kelvin - 6th ed - Philadelphia; Wolters Kluwer| Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2013 - 563p. ill. 23cm

Revised edition of: Statistical methods for health care research / Barbara Hazard Munro. 5th ed. c2005.

Using research and statistics in health care --
Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data --
Key principles of statistical inference --
Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics --
Measuring the differences between the means two unrelated group means : independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests --
Measuring the differences between the means of two related groups : paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests --
Measuring the differences between the means of three or more unrelated groups : one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-tests --
Differences among the means of three or more unrelated groups defined by two or more independent variables : N-way ANOVA --
Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by rank --
Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) --
Measuring the association of two variables : Pearson and Spearman correlation --
Examining cross tabulations : the Chi-square statistic and the McNemar test --
Logistic regression --
Linear regression and regression diagnostics --
Factor analysis --
Path analysis --
Structural equation modeling --
Writing for presentation and publication.

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Nursing--Statistical Methods--Research
Medical Care--Statistical Methods--Research
Health Services Research

RT81.5 / .M86 2013