Description
This text provides students with a solid foundation for understanding data analysis and specific statistical techniques. Focusing on the most current and frequently used statistical methods in today's health care literature, the book covers essential material for a variety of program levels including in-depth courses beyond the basic statistics course. Well-organized, clear text discussions and great learning tools help students overcome the complexities and fully comprehend the concepts of this often intimidating area of study.
Features
* The book covers essential material for a variety of program levels including in-depth courses beyond the basic statistics course.
* New author team based the book on the organizational framework that Barbara Hazard Munro developed, which a generation of students and health care providers have used.
* Included are chapter-by-chapter sections on the research question, examples from the literature, types of data required, assumptions, details of the specific technique under discussion, and a fully worked out example of how to compute the statistic both by hand and with IBM SPSS.
* The software that is referenced has been updated to SPSS 18.
* Expanded discussions of nonparametric (distribution free) statistics and the chi-square statistic are included.
* The book is organized into three sections: Section 1 focuses on obtaining and understanding your data, Section 2 focuses on analyzing the data (largely with bivariate statistics), and Section 3 focuses on model building and presenting your data.
About the Author(s)
- Stacey B Plichta ScD, CPH
- Department Chair, School of Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Elizabeth Kelvin PhD, MPH
- PhD, MPHAssistant ProfessorCUNY School of Public Health at Hunter CollegeNew York, NY
Specs
- Edition: Sixth
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9781451187946
- Trim Size: 7 x 9
- Pages: 576
- Pub Date: Sep 6, 2012
- Weight: 2.0
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