Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS

by Herschel Knapp

Overview

A friendly and approachable guide to real-world statistics, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS by Herschel Knapp covers the most common statistical functions in nursing science using plain language. Students learn by doing, and an emphasis on this practical approach is seen throughout the book with each chapter structured to answer key questions: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Practice exercises include a vignette, codebook, and data sets ready for processing, enabling students to achieve mastery by carrying out actual statistical analyses. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506325699
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Herschel Knapp, PhD, MSSW has more than 20 years of experience as a health science researcher; he has provided project management for innovative implementations designed to improve the quality of patient care throughout the Veterans Health Administration via multisite, health science implementations. In addition to full-time work at the VA, he teaches masters-level courses at the University of Southern California; he has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Knapp has served as the lead statistician on a longitudinal cancer research project and managed the program evaluation metrics for a multisite, non-profit children’s center. His clinical work includes emergency/trauma therapy in hospital settings. The author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed health science journals, he is also the author of Introductory Statistics Using SPSS (SAGE, 2013), Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills, Second Edition (SAGE, 2014) and Introduction to Social Work Practice: A Practical Workbook (SAGE, 2010). Dr. Knapp is currently involved in developing and implementing innovative telehealth systems, utilizing videoconferencing technology to facilitate optimal healthcare service delivery to remote patients, and to coordinate specialty consultations among healthcare providers including interventions to diagnose and treat people with HIV and hepatitis, with special outreach to the homeless.

Table of Contents

Part I: Statistical Principles
1. Research Principles
Learning Objectives
Research Question
Control and Experimental Groups
Rationale for Random Assignment
Hypothesis Formulation
Reading Statistical Outcomes
Accept/Reject Hypotheses
Levels of Measure
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
2. Sampling
Learning Objectives
Overview - Sampling
Rationale for Sampling
Sampling Terminology
Representative Sample
Probability Sampling
Nonprobability Sampling
Sampling Bias
Optimal Sample Size
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
3. Working in SPSS
Learning Objectives
Overview - Working in SPSS
Two Views: Variable View and Data View
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Part II: Summarizing Variables
4. Descriptive Statistics
Learning Objectives
Overview - Descriptive Statistics
Descriptive Statistics
SPSS - Loading SPSS Data Files
SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variables (Age)
SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Categorical Variables (Gender)
SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variable (Age) Select by Categorical Variable (Gender)
SPSS - (Re)Selecting All Variables
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Part III: Measuring Differences Between Groups
5. t-Test and Mann-Whitney U-Test
Learning Objectives
Overview - t-Test
Overview - Mann-Whitney U-Test
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
6. ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Test
Learning Objectives
Overview - ANOVA
Overview - Kruskal-Wallis Test
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
7. ANCOVA
Learning Objectives
Overview - ANCOVA
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
8. MANOVA
Learning Objectives
Overview - MANOVA
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Part IV - Measuring Differences Over Time
9. Paired t-Test and Wilcoxon Test
Learning Objectives
Overview - Paired t-Test
Overview - Wilcoxon Test
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
10. ANOVA Repeated Measures
Learning Objectives
Overview - ANOVA Repeated Measures
Variations of Longitudinal Design
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Part V - Measuring Relationships Between Variables
11. Correlation and Regression
Learning Objectives
Overview - Pearson Correlation
Overview - Spearman Correlation
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
12. Chi-Square
Learning Objectives
Overview - Chi-Square
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
13. Logistic Regression
Learning Objectives
Overview - Logistic Regression
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Part VI - Data Handling
14. Supplemental SPSS Operations
Learning Objectives
Overview - Supplemental SPSS Operations
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises