Product Description
Brink's statistics for health professionals (2nd edition)
Authors: G van Rensburg, D van Zyl
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Based on Professor Emeritus Brink's Statistics for nurses that since 1987 has helped generations of student researchers, Brink's Statistics for health professionals offers a practical guide on fundamental statistics and techniques used by researchers in the health sciences.
Brink's Statistics for health professionals provides emerging researchers with a foundation for applying basic descriptive and inferential statistical techniques to real-life questions in any health sciences context. Techniques and terms are gradually introduced by highlighting them first, then presenting them conceptually and illustrating them with examples relevant to the health sciences. Exercises and learning activities provide the reader with an opportunity to put concepts to use.
Contents:
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Section 1: An introduction to statistics and research
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Chapter 1 Introducing statistical concepts to the health professional
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Chapter 2 Using sampling and estimation in health sciences research and practice
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Chapter 3 Uses and misuses of statistics
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Section 2: Basic statistical analysis (descriptive)
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Chapter 4 Grouping of data (frequency distributions)
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Chapter 5 Measures of central tendency
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Chapter 6 Measures of variation or dispersion
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Chapter 7 The normal distribution curve and standard scores
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Chapter 8 Visual presentation of data
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Chapter 9 Elementary probability
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Chapter 10 An introduction to hypothesis testing
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Chapter 11 Bivariate correlation
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Chapter 12 Hypothesis testing with nominal-level data
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Chapter 13 Hypothesis testing with ordinal-level data
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Chapter 14 Hypothesis testing with interval-level data
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Chapter 15 Reliability and validity
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Annexure: A review of fundamentals of arithmetic and algebra
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