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Statistics for evidence-based practice and evaluation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubin, Allen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Australia : Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, [2013]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Medical statistics.
Evidence-based medicine > Statistical methods.
Clinical medicine > Statistical methods.
Evidence-Based Medicine > methods.
Statistics as Topic > methods.
Clinical Medicine > methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Why study statistics?
  • Use of statistics in evidence-based practice
  • Review of key research methodology concepts and terms
  • Frequency distributions
  • Graphs and charts
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Measures of dispersion
  • Types of distribution
  • z-scores, percentiles, and effect size
  • Probability and sampling distributions
  • Hypothesis testing and statistical significance
  • Type I and type II errors
  • Interpreting the strength and importance of relationships
  • T-test
  • Analysis of variance
  • Cross-tabulation and chi-square
  • Correlation
  • Regression analysis
  • Applications to single-system evaluation.