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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610.727 EAN: 9780781748407 Edition: 5 ISBN: 0781748402 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: October 01, 2004 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Focusing on the statistical methods most frequently used in the health care literature and featuring numerous charts, graphs, and up-to-date examples from the literature, this text provides a thorough foundation for the statistics portion of nursing and all health care research courses. All Fifth Edition chapters include new examples and new computer printouts using the latest software, SPSS for Windows, Version 12. New material on regression diagnostics has been added. Includes a complete set of powerpoint slides on the Connection website Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Double skinned knee ouch!If I didn't need it for a class...I would never have bought this. It hurts my soft-science brain to read. Rating: - Repetitive and InsightfulNeither negative or positive, this book provides a repetitive but insightful view to statistics in research and the importance of proper and careful calculation and distribution. Rating: - StatisticsThis book is written for PhD level students. It is not an easy read, even for someone who has had statistics before. I would not recommend this text to anyone except experienced statistics students. Rating:  - Statistical Methods for Health Care ResearchA very well-written and helpful statistics book. It was required reading for a course in Quantitative Nursing Research last semester. Overall, the concepts such as t-tests, correlation and regression were explained in relatively simple terms. Examples with answers were found at the end of each chapter and the book came with a data disk. This was the most user-friendly statistics book that I have used so far! Rating:  - Great bookI had a chance to review this book. I think the authors can make us much better understand, particularly one who is about to learn the concept of statistics. You can apply this book with the SPSS program in order to interpret the results. Anyway, I still like the calculation parts which are removed in this edition (3rd) compared with the last one. I think they can help someone, who is very interested in statistics, to understand better before go ahead to use the computer. It's a great book for ... Read More 
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