基本説明
Offers a comprehensive introduction to statistical methods for the health care researcher and professional.
Full Description
Statistics for Health Care Professionalsedition) is written in a clear, easily followed style keyed to the powerful statistical tool, Microsoft Excel 2007. It introduces the use of statistics applicable to health administration, health policy, public health, health information management, and other professions, emphasizing the logic of probability and statistical analysis in all areas. Coverage includes data acquisition, data display, basics of probability, data distributions, confidence limits and hypothesis testing, statistical tests for categorical data, tests for related and unrelated data, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, multiple regression, and analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent variable. A glossary and section-by-section review questions round out this uniquely comprehensive and accessible text.
Contents
Preface xi Acknowledgments xv The Authors xvii PART ONE 1 1 STATISTICS AND EXCEL 3 2 EXCEL AS A STATISTICAL TOOL 29 3 DATA ACQUISITION: SAMPLING AND DATA PREPARATION 65 4 DATA DISPLAY: DESCRIPTIVE PRESENTATION, DISPERSION: DATA DISTRIBUTIONS 185 PART TWO 235 7 CONFIDENCE LIMITS AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING 237 8 STATISTICAL TESTS FOR CATEGORICAL DATA 269 9 t SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION 359 12 MULTIPLE REGRESSION: CONCEPTS AND DICHOTOMOUS CATEGORICAL DEPENDENT VARIABLE 453 GLOSSARY 483 REFERENCES 493 INDEX 495
