Munro's Statistical Methods for Health Care Research

Section 1: Obtaining and Understanding Data  Chapter 1: Using Research and Statistics in Health Care Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics: Getting to Know the Data Chapter 3: Key Principles of Statistical Inference Chapter 4: Hypothesis Testing with Inferential Statistics  Section 2: Analyzing the Data  Chapter 5: Measuring the Differences Between the Means Two Unrelated Group Means: Independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests Chapter 6: Measuring the Differences Between the Means of Two Related Groups: Paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests Chapter 7: Measuring the Differences Between the Means of Three or More Unrelated Groups: One -Way ANOVAs and the Kruskal-Wallis H-tests Chapter 8: Differences Among the Means of Three or More Unrelated Groups Defined by Two or More Independent Variables: N-Way ANOVA Chapter 9: Comparing the Means of Three or More Related Groups: Repeated Measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by Rank Chapter 10: Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) Chapter 11: Measuring the Association of two Variables: Pearson and Spearman Correlation Chapter 12: Examining Cross tabulations: The Chi-square Statistic and The McNemar Test Section 3: Model Building and Presentation  Chapter 13: Logistic Regression Chapter 14: Linear Regression and Regression Diagnostic Chapter 15: Factor Analysis Chapter 16: Path Analysis Chapter 17: Structural Equation Modeling Chapter 18: Writing for Presentation and Publication  Appendices and other end of book items  Glossary Appendix A: Entering Data into SPSS Appendix B: Percent of Total Area of Normal Curve Between a z-score and the Mean Appendix C: Distribution of t Appendix D: Critical Values of the U-statistic Appendix E: Critical Values of the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Statistic Appendix F: The 5% and 1% Points for the Distribution of F Appendix G: Critical Values of H for the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by Rank Appendix H: Critical Values of Dunn's Q for Nonparametric Multiple Comparison Testing Appendix I: Exact Distribution of the Friedman's χ2 for the Friedman'Xs ANOVA by Rank Comparing Three Related Groups Appendix J: Critical Values of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient Appendix K: Critical Value of the Spearman Correlation Coefficient Appendix L: Distribution of χ2 Probability  Bibliography  Index