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A friendly and approachable guide to real-world statistics, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS (R) covers the most common statistical functions in nursing science using plain language. 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? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Practice exercises include a vignette, codebook, and data sets ready for processing, enabling students to achieve mastery by carrying out actual statistical analyses.

Online resources for students are available and include data sets for examples and exercises, fully developed solutions to all odd-numbered exercises, and thorough tutorial videos providing an overview of each statistical method, step-by-step guidance on SPSS (R) processing, and interpretation of results. Online resources for instructors include Microsoft (R) PowerPoint (R) slides for each chapter and solutions to all exercises.


Contents:

Part I: Statistical Principles
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


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781506325675
Publisher: Sage Publications Limited (SAGE Publications Inc)
Publication date: June, 2016
Pages: 448
Weight: 720g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues, Nursing

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