Focusing on the statistical methods most frequently used in the health care literature and featuring numerous charts, graphs, and up-to-date examples from the literature, this text provides a thorough foundation for the statistics portion of nursing and all health care research courses. All Fifth Edition chapters include new examples and new computer printouts using the latest software, SPSS for Windows, Version 12. New material on regression diagnostics has been added. Includes a complete set of powerpoint slides on the Connection website
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Double skinned knee ouch!:
If I didn't need it for a class...I would never have bought this. It hurts my soft-science brain to read.
Repetitive and Insightful:
Neither negative or positive, this book provides a repetitive but insightful view to statistics in research and the importance of proper and careful calculation and distribution.
Statistics:
This book is written for PhD level students. It is not an easy read, even for someone who has had statistics before. I would not recommend this text to anyone except experienced statistics students.
Statistical Methods for Health Care Research:
A very well-written and helpful statistics book. It was required reading for a course in Quantitative Nursing Research last semester. Overall, the concepts such as t-tests, correlation and regression were explained in relatively simple terms. Examples with answers were found at the end of each chapter and the book came with a data disk. This was the most user-friendly statistics book that I have used so far!
