Assists nursing and health professionals in gaining a basic understanding of statistics. Appropriate for self-study or course use, this pratical text trains the student to become a better consumer of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Susan Shott does a good job presenting statistics with a variety of real world examples drawn from medical studies. She has some biases, which are controvercial, like her discounting the fisher exact test. I found the examples using output from SAS and SPSS helpful, but a more modern text would have done well to use R. What is missing is any analysis of survival data or Kaplan Meier pluts. Analysis of survival data is common in the medical literature.
stastics demystified
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This book is written in clear English and has great examples. The author presents a logical approach to choosing a statistical test.
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