Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Professional nurses must be able to critique and understand the strengths and weakness of statistical design and analysis in order to develop evidence-based practices in a clinical setting. Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach teaches nursing students the selection, application, and evaluation of statistical analysis techniques in addition to how to evaluate and apply the results derived from this analysis. Written in a clear, straightforward manner, this comprehensive text includes chapter objectives, a clinical research focus, a research application box, chapter summaries, key terms for each chapter, review questions, application exercises, and much more.
Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-based Practice
Kruskal was the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago . President Richard Nixon appointed Dr. Kruskal to his Presidential Commission on Federal ...
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?
Operational Research Study Examples • An operational research study on patients' satisfaction with, and awareness of, single- and double-corridor ward designs in se- lected hospitals at New Delhi. • An operational research study on the ...
Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, Second Edition presents statistics in a readable, user-friendly manner for both graduate students and the professional nurse.
Nursing Research & 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.
The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. ... In C. F. Waltz, O. L. Strickland, & E. R. Lenz (Eds.), Measurement in nursing and health research (5th ed., pp. 427–445).
This edition uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyze research findings.
Making no assumptions about one’s existing knowledge, the text develops in complexity as the material and concepts become more familiar, allowing readers to build the confidence and skills to apply various formula and techniques to their ...