Introductory Statistics for Health and Nursing Using SPSS / Edition 1

by Louise Marston

Overview

Introductory Statistics for Health and Nursing Using SPSS is a highly applied introductory statistics text ideal for all health science and nursing students.

Health and nursing students can be anxious and lacking in confidence when it comes to handling statistics. This book has been developed with this readership in mind. This accessible text avoids using long and off-putting statistical formulae in favor of non-daunting practical and SPSS-based examples. What’s more, its content will fit ideally with the common course content of stats courses in the field.

Introductory Statistics for Health and Nursing Using SPSS is also accompanied by a companion website containing data-sets and examples for use by lecturers with their students.

The inclusion of real-world data and a host of health-related examples should make this an ideal core text for any introductory statistics course in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847874825
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/30/2010
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface viii

1 Getting Started with Data and SPSS 1

2 Data Management 22

3 Study Designs 42

4 Probability 54

5 Summary Statistics for Continuous Data 60

6 Summary Statistics for Categorical Data 90

7 Samples and Populations 102

8 Comparing Two Categorical Variables 112

9 Comparing Means 136

10 Non-Parametric Tests 154

11 Assessing Associations with a Continuous Outcome 173

12 Assessing Associations with a Categorical Outcome 200

Appendix 1 Datasets 213

Appendix 2 Solutions 215

Glossary 234

References 243

Index 247