TY - BOOK AU - Plichta,Stacey Beth AU - Kelvin,Elizabeth A. AU - Munro,Barbara Hazard TI - Munro's statistical methods for health care research SN - 9781451115611 U1 - 610.727 21 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins KW - Nursing KW - Research KW - Statistical methods KW - Medical care KW - Health Services Research KW - methods KW - Statistics as Topic N1 - Rev. ed. of: Statistical methods for health care research / Barbara Hazard Munro. 5th ed. c2005; Includes bibliographical references and index; Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Key principles of statistical inference -- Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- Measuring the differences between the means two unrelated group means : independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of two related groups : paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of three or more unrelated groups : one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-tests -- Differences among the means of three or more unrelated groups defined by two or more independent variables : N-way ANOVA -- Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's ANOVA by rank -- Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) -- Measuring the association of two variables : Pearson and Spearman correlation -- Examining cross tabulations : the Chi-square statistic and the McNemar test -- Logistic regression -- Linear regression and regression diagnostics -- Factor analysis -- Path analysis -- Structural equation modeling -- Writing for presentation and publication ER -