Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS
Autor Herschel Knappen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 150632567X
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Recenzii
The new textbook by Herschel Knapp, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS, is a useful text to supplement a basic research textbook for students being introduced to the research process. It provides a clear and concise explanation of commonly used statistical tests and builds skills related to the use of SPSS.
This book is a very simple introduction into statistics. The author provides many very useful examples to help students comprehend difficult analyses. The SPSS examples and visuals are superior, as are the exercise at the end of the chapter.
Cuprins
1. Research Principles
Learning Objectives
Research Questions
Control and Experimental Groups
Rationale for Random Assignment
Hypothesis Formulation
Reading Statistical Outcomes
Accept/Reject Hypotheses
Variable Types/Levels of Measure
Good Common Sense
Key Concepts
Practice Exercises
Chapter 2 Samplng
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 - 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
Notă biografică
Herschel Knapp, PhD, MSSW, has more than 25 years of experience as a health care professional in a variety of domains. In addition to his clinical work as a psychotherapist, primarily in hospital settings, he has provided project management for innovative implementations designed to improve the quality of patient care via multisite, health science implementations. He teaches master¿s-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, nonprofit children¿s center. His clinical work includes emergency/trauma therapy in hospital settings. Dr. Knapp has developed and implemented innovative telehealth systems, utilizing videoconferencing technology to facilitate optimal health care service delivery to remote patients and to coordinate specialty consultations among health care providers, including interventions to diagnose and treat people with HIV and hepatitis, with special outreach to the homeless. He is currently leading a nurse research mentorship program and providing research and analytic services to promote excellence within a health care system. The author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed health science journals, he is also the author of other textbooks, including Introductory Statistics Using SPSS (2nd ed., 2017), Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS (2017), Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills (2nd ed., 2014), and Introduction to Social Work Practice: A Practical Workbook (2010).