STATISTICS FOR NURSING A Practical Approach

• Main Author: Heavey, Elizabeth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Burlington, MA Jones & Bartlett Learning 2024
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Subjects: Statistics as Topic > Nurses Instruction; Nursing Research > Nurses Instruction
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"Today's nurse faces even more questions about understanding and interpreting data. Although statistics has not changed in its essence, nurses are leveraging new technologies to interpret data in the clinical space. Understanding how to use that information and make successful clinical dec...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to statistics and levels of measurement
• Presenting data
• Descriptive statistics, probability, and measures of central tendency
• Measuring data
• Sampling methods
• Generating the research idea
• Sample size, effect size, and power
• Chi-square
• Student t-test
• Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• Correlation coefficients
• Regression analysis
• Relative risk vs. absolute risk and other public health measures you commonly see.