Contents Statistics for health care research ; The statistical approach: when should it be applied? / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- Measuring, sampling and error / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Questionnaires / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- The studies / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Descriptive statistics ; Displaying data / Kathie Moore, Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Hypothesis testing ; Distributions and probabilities ; Making predictions ; Testing for differences between means ; Errors and ANOVAs ; Not normal ; Non-parametric tests ; Tests for association (1) Chi-square ; Tests for association (2) Correlation and regression ; Analysing data from systematic reviews ; Choosing test statistics / Ian Scott and Debbie Mazhindu -- Appendices. A guide to analysing statistics critically / Debbie Mazhindu and Ian Scott -- Statistical tables ; Answers to exercises ; The common symbols and abbreviations used in statistics