Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health

Download or read book Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health written by Stacey Beth Plichta and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook explores the role of research in health care and focuses in particular on the importance of organizing and describing research data using basic statistics. The goal of the text is to teach students how to analyze data and present the results of evidence-based data analysis. Based on the commonly-used SPSS software, a comprehensive range of statistical techniques—both parametric and non-parametric—are presented and explained. Examples are given from nursing, health administration, and health professions, followed by an opportunity for students to immediately practice the technique.