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Statistics for advanced practice nurses and health professionals / Manfred Stommel, PhD, Katherine J. Dontje, PhD, FNP-BC.
Holman Biotech Commons RT68 .S76 2014
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Pennsylvania Hospital Library WA 950 S76 2014s
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stommel, Manfred, author.
- Dontje, Katherine J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Statistical methods.
- Nursing.
- Statistics as Topic.
- Clinical Nursing Research--methods.
- Nurse Practitioners.
- Medical Subjects:
- Statistics as Topic.
- Clinical Nursing Research--methods.
- Nurse Practitioners.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Publishing Company, [2014]
- Summary:
- This comprehensive, graduate-level text for advanced practice nurses and other health care professionals provides state-of-the-art tools that facilitate the reading and interpretation of articles in clinical journals that use increasingly complex statistical techniques. It goes beyond the usual offerings of such texts to address clinically relevant topics in bio-statistics such as survival analysis and evaluation of screening tests. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying logic of statistical texts and models in order to correctly interpret them and effectively trans.
- Contents:
- The role of statistics in research and clinical practice
- Properties of variables: levels of measurement
- Descriptive univariate statistics
- Probabilities
- Logic of statistical inference: the sampling distribution and significance tests
- Standard errors, confidence intervals and the power of statistical tests
- Research designs and statistical analysis
- T-test
- One-way analysis of variance
- Linear regression and Pearson's r correlation
- Factorial analysis of variance and analysis of covariance
- Multiple linear regression
- Repeated-measures analysis of variance
- Introduction to mixed-effects regression models
- Nonparametric/ordinal statistics
- Frequency cross-tabulations: 2x2 tables
- Logistic regression with one independent variable
- Logistic regression models with multiple predictors
- Incidence rates, life tables and survival function
- Comparing survival functions in different groups and hazard regression
- Reliability coefficients and medical test evaluation
- Factor analysis
- Data management and privacy concerns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826198242
- 0826198244
- 0826198252
- 9780826198259
- OCLC:
- 869367661
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