Quantitative Methods for Health Research: A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics

Quantitative Methods for Health Research: A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics
ISBN-10
111869337X
ISBN-13
9781118693377
Category
Medical
Pages
552
Language
English
Published
2013-03-18
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Daniel Pope, Debbi Stanistreet, Nigel Bruce

Description

Quantitative Research Methods for Health Professionals: APractical Interactive Course is a superb introductionto epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methodology for thewhole health care community. Drawing examples from a wide range of health research, thispractical handbook covers important contemporary health researchmethods such as survival analysis, Cox regression, andmeta-analysis, the understanding of which go beyond introductoryconcepts. The book includes self-assessment exercises throughout to helpstudents explore and reflect on their understanding and a cleardistinction is made between a) knowledge and concepts that allstudents should ensure they understand and b) those that can bepursued by students who wish to do so. The authors incorporate a program of practical exercises in SPSSusing a prepared data set that helps to consolidate the theory anddevelop skills and confidence in data handling, analysis andinterpretation.

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