Plichta, Stacey Beth, 1965-.

Munro's statistical methods for health care research / Statistical methods for health care research Stacey B. Plichta, Elizabeth A. Kelvin. - 6th ed. - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013. - vii, 567 p : ill ; 23 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Statistical methods for health care research / Barbara Hazard Munro. 5th ed. c2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-551) and index.

Using research and statistics in health care -- Organizing, displaying, and describing data -- Key principles underlying statistical inference -- Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- The independent t-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test -- The paired t tests and the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Rank test -- The one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test -- Differences among group means : N-way ANOVA and MANOVA -- Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by rank -- Comparing means and controlling for covariates : ANCOVA -- Correlation coefficients -- Examining cross-tabulations -- Statistical model building and logistic regression -- Linear regression -- Exploratory factor analysis -- Path analysis -- Structural equation modeling -- Writing and presenting for publication.

145111561X 9781451115611 9781451187946

2011027645

101563786


Medical care--Research--Statistical methods.
Nursing--Research--Statistical methods.
Health Services Research--methods.
Statistics as Topic.

RT81.5 / .M86

610.72/7 610.72/7

WA 950 / P728 2013 WA 950 / P728m 2013 WA 950