TY - BOOK AU - Plichta,Stacey Beth AU - Garzon,Laurel S. TI - Statistics for nursing and allied health SN - 9780781754590 (pbk.) : AV - RT68 .P65 2009 U1 - 610.73072 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Philadelphia, Pa., London PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Nursing KW - Research KW - Statistical methods KW - Medical statistics KW - Statistics as Topic KW - methods KW - Nursing Research N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Building blocks for using inferential statistics -- Inferential statistics : finding relationships in the data -- The independent T-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test: comparing the means of two unrelated groups -- The paired T-test and the Wilcoxon matched-pairs test: comparing the means of two related groups -- The one-way Anova and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test: comparing the means of three or more unrelated groups -- The repeated-measures Anova and the Friedman's Anova by rank : comparing the means of three or more related groups -- The Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients : measuring the association of two variables -- The chi-square statistic and the McNemar test : examining relationships between categorical variables -- Model building with linear and logistic regression -- Writing for publication UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008024783-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0837/2008024783-t.html ER -