Statistics for advanced practice nurses and health professionals /
Manfred Stommel, PhD, Katherine J. Dontje, PhD, FNP-BC.
- ix, 339 p. : ill . ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 pearsonâs 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.
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