Overview

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel (second edition) 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.

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Author:   James E. Veney ,  John F. Kros ,  David A. Rosenthal
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9780470393314

ISBN 10:   0470393319
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   11 September 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of 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, 5 BASIC CONCEPTS OF PROBABILITY 145 6 MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY AND DISPERSION: DATA DISTRIBUTIONS 185 PART TWO 235 7 CONFIDENCE LIMITS AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING 237 8 STATISTICAL TESTS FOR CATEGORICAL DATA 269 9 t TESTS FOR RELATED AND UNRELATED DATA 291 10 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE 317 11 SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION 359 12 MULTIPLE REGRESSION: CONCEPTS AND CALCULATION 387 13 EXTENSIONS OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION 415 14 ANALYSIS WITH A DICHOTOMOUS CATEGORICAL DEPENDENT VARIABLE 453 GLOSSARY 483 REFERENCES 493 INDEX 495

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John F. Kros is an associate professor of marketing and supply chain management at East Carolina University College of Business, Greenville, North Carolina. David A. Rosenthal is an associate professor in the Department of Health Informatics and Information Management at the University of Tennessee's Health Science Center, Memphis.

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