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Autore |
Fowler Jim <1943-> |
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Titolo |
Practical statistics for nursing and health care [[electronic resource]] / Jim Fowler, Phil Jarvis and Mel Chevannes |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : John Wiley & Sons, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-471-49715-0 |
1-118-68562-8 |
1-118-68561-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical statistics |
Nursing - Research - Statistical methods |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword to Students; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 What do we mean by statistics?; 1.2 Why is statistics necessary?; 1.3 The limitations of statistics; 1.4 Calculators and computers in statistics; 1.5 The purpose of this text; 2 HEALTH CARE INVESTIGATIONS: MEASUREMENT AND SAMPLING CONCEPTS; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Populations; 2.3 Counting things - the sampling unit; 2.4 Sampling strategy; 2.5 Target and study populations; 2.6 Sample designs; 2.7 Simple random sampling; 2.8 Systematic sampling; 2.9 Stratified sampling; 2.10 Quota sampling; 2.11 Cluster sampling |
2.12 Sampling designs - summary 2.13 Statistics and parameters; 2.14 Descriptive and inferential statistics; 2.15 Parametric and non-parametric statistics; 3 PROCESSING DATA; 3.1 Scales of measurement; 3.2 The nominal scale; 3.3 The ordinal scale; 3.4 The interval scale; 3.5 The ratio scale; 3.6 Conversion of interval observations to an ordinal scale; 3.7 Derived variables; 3.8 Logarithms; 3.9 The precision of observations; 3.10 How precise should we be?; 3.11 The frequency table; 3.12 Aggregating frequency classes; 3.13 Frequency distribution of count observations; 3.14 Bivariate data |
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