Introductory Statistics for Health and Nursing Using SPSS (eBook)

Louise Marston (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | 1., First Edition
264 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-4462-4333-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Introductory Statistics for Health & Nursing using SPSS is an impressive introductory statistics text ideal for all health science and nursing students. Health and nursing students can be anxious and lacking in confidence when it comes to handling statistics. This book has been developed with this readership in mind. This accessible text eschews long and off-putting statistical formulae in favour of non-daunting practical and SPSS-based examples. What's more, its content will fit ideally with the common course content of stats courses in the field.Introductory Statistics for Health & Nursing using SPSS is also accompanied by a companion website containing data-sets and examples for use by lecturers with their students.The inclusion of real-world data and a host of health-related examples should make this an ideal core text for any introductory statistics course in the field.

Inhalt

Getting Started with Data and SPSS
Data Management
Study Designs
Probability
Summary Statistics for Continuous Data
Summary Statistics for Categorical Data
Samples and Populations
Comparing Two Categorical Variables
Comparing Means
Non-Parametric Tests
Assessing Associations with a Continuous Outcome
Assessing Associations with a Categorical Outcome

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2009
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Computerprogramme / Computeralgebra
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Studiengänge ► Pflegewissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Health • Health Research • Health Science • Introductory Statistics • nursing • Nursing Research • Research • SPSS • Statistics
• ISBN-10: 1-4462-4333-8 / 1446243338
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4462-4333-6 / 9781446243336