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Statistics for advanced practice nurses and health professionals /

"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 usua...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Stommel, Manfred (Auteur), Dontje, Katherine J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, [2014]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introductin: 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
  • Oneway 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
  • Non-parametric/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.