Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Building blocks for using inferential statistics -- Inferential statistics : finding relationships in the data -- The independent T-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test: comparing the means of two unrelated groups -- The paired T-test and the Wilcoxon matched-pairs test: comparing the means of two related groups -- The one-way Anova and the Kruskal-Wallis H-test: comparing the means of three or more unrelated groups -- The repeated-measures Anova and the Friedman's Anova by rank : comparing the means of three or more related groups -- The Pearson and the Spearman correlation coefficients : measuring the association of two variables -- The chi-square statistic and the McNemar test : examining relationships between categorical variables -- Model building with linear and logistic regression -- Writing for publication.
Includes bibliographical references and index.