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9780470497920

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working With Excel, 2nd Edition

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    9780470497920

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    0470497920

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  • Copyright: 2009-08-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel (second edition) is written in a clear, easily followed style keyed to the powerful statistical tool, Microsoft Excel 2007. It introduces the use of statistics applicable to health administration, health policy, public health, health information management, and other professions, emphasizing the logic of probability and statistical analysis in all areas. Coverage includes data acquisition, data display, basics of probability, data distributions, confidence limits and hypothesis testing, statistical tests for categorical data, tests for related and unrelated data, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, multiple regression, and analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent variable. A glossary and section-by-section review questions round out this uniquely comprehensive and accessible text.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Authors
Statistics and Excel
How This Book Differs from Other Statistics Texts
Statistical Applications in Health Policy and Health Administration
Exercises for Section 1.2
What Is the "Big Picture"?
Some Initial Definitions
Exercises for Section 1.4
Five Statistical Tests
Exercises for Section 1.5
Key Terms
Excel as a Statistical Tool
The Basics
Exercises for Section 2.1
Working and Moving Around in a Spreadsheet
Exercises for Section 2.2
Excel Functions
Exercises for Section 2.3
The =IF() Function
Exercises for Section 2.4
Excel Graphs
Exercises for Section 2.5
Sorting a String of Data
Exercise for Section 2.6
The Data Analysis Pack
Functions That Give Results in More Than One Cell
Exercises for Section 2.8
The Dollar Sign ($) Convention for Cell References
Key Terms
Data Acquisition: Sampling and Data Preparation
The Nature of Data
Exercises for Section 3.1
Sampling
Exercises for Section 3.2
Data Access and Preparation
Exercises for Section 3.3
Missing Data
Key Terms
Data Display: Descriptive Presentation, Excel Graphing Capability
The =FREQUENCY() Function
Exercises for Section 4.1
Using the Pivot Table to Generate Frequencies of Categorical Variables
Exercises for Section 4.2
A Logical Extension of the Pivot Table: Two Variables
Exercises for Section 4.3
Appendix: Using Excel 2007 to Generate Pivot Tables with One Variable
Key Terms
Basic Concepts of Probability
Some Initial Concepts and Definitions
Exercises for Section 5.1
Marginal Probabilities, Joint Probabilities, and Conditional Probabilities
Exercises for Section 5.2
Binomial Probability
Exercises for Section 5.3
The Poisson Distribution
Exercises for Section 5.4
The Normal Distribution
Key Terms
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion: Data Distributions
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
Exercises for Section 6.1
The Distribution of Frequencies
Exercises for Section 6.2
The Sampling Distribution of the Mean
Exercises for Section 6.3
Mean and Standard Deviation of a Discrete Numerical Variable
Exercises for Section 6.4
The Distribution of a Proportion
Exercises for Section 6.5
The t Distribution
Exercises for Section 6.6
Key Terms
Confidence Limits and Hypothesis Testing
What Is a Confidence Interval?
Exercises for Section 7.1
Calculating Confidence Limits for Multiple Samples
Exercises for Section 7.2
What Is Hypothesis Testing?
Exercises for Section 7.3
Type I and Type II Errors
Exercises for Section 7.4
Selecting Sample Sizes
Exercises for Section 7.5
Key Terms
Statistical Tests for Categorical Data
Independence of Two Variables
Exercises for Section 8.1
Examples of Chi-Square Analyses
Exercises for Section 8.2
Small Expected Values in Cells
Exercises for Section 8.3
Key Terms
Tests for Related and Unrelated Data
What Is a t Test?
Exercises for Section 9.1
A t Test for Comparing Two Groups
Exercises for Section 9.2
A t Test for Related Data
Exercises for Section 9.3
Key Terms
Analysis of Variance
One-Way Analysis of Variance
Exercises for Section 10.1
ANOVA for Repeated Measures
Exercises for Section 10.2
Factorial Analysis of Variance
Exercises for Section 10.3
Key Terms
Simple Linear Regression
Meaning and Calculation of Linear Regression
Exercises for Section 11.1
Testing the Hypothesis of Independence
Exercises for Section 11.2
The Excel Regression Add-In
Exercises for Section 11.3
The Importance of Examining the Scatterplot
The Relationship Between Regression and the t Test
Exercises for Section 11.5
Key Terms
Multiple Regression: Concepts and Calculation
Introduction
Exercises for Section 12.1
Multiple Regression and Matrices
Exercises for Section 12.2
Key Terms
Extensions of Multiple Regression
Dummy Variables in Multiple Regression
Exercises for Section 13.1
The Best Regression Model
Exercises for Section 13.2
Correlation and Multicolinearity
Exercises for Section 13.3
Nonlinear Relationships
Exercises for Section 13.4
Key Terms
Analysis with a Dichotomous Categorical Dependent Variable
Introduction to the Dichotomous Dependent Variable
An Example with a Dichotomous Dependent Variable: Traditional Treatments
Exercises for Section 14.2
Logit for Estimating Dichotomous Dependent Variables
Exercises for Section 14.3
A Comparison of Ordinary Least Squares, Weighted Least Squares, and Logit
Exercises for Section 14.4
Key Terms
Glossary
References
Index
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