Published by Pearson (October 3, 2013) © 2014
Denise Polit
The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing, uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyse research findings. Students are guided through the complete analysis process from performing a statistical analysis to the rationale behind doing so. In addition, management of data, including how and why to recode variables for analysis, how to "clean" data, and how to work around missing data, is discussed.
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- Introduction to Data Analysis in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
- 2 Frequency Distribution: Tabulating and Displaying Data
- 3 Central Tendency, Variability, and Location
- 4 Correlation, Crosstabulation, and Risk Indexes: Describing Relationships:
- 5 Statistical Inference
- 6 t Tests
- 7 Analysis of Variance
- 8 Chi Square and Other Nonparametric Tests
- 9 Correlation and Simple Regression
- 10 Multiple Regression
- 11 Analysis of Covariance, MANOVA, and Other Related Multivariate Techniques
- 12 Using Logistic Regression
- 13 Factor Analysis and Internal Consistency Reliability Analysis
- 14 Missing Values
- Appendix A: Theoretical Probability Tables
- Appendix B: Power Analysis/Effect Size Tables
- Appendix C: Tips on Handling Missing Data
- Appendix D: Answers for Selected Exercises