Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health Stacey B. Plichta, ScD Professor of Urban Public Health Hunter College The City University of New York (CUNY) New York, New York Laurel S. Garzon, PhD, PNP Director Graduate Nursing Programs School of Nursing Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia

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Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health Stacey B. Plichta, ScD Professor of Urban Public Health Hunter College The City University of New York (CUNY) New York, New York Laurel S. Garzon, PhD, ... PNP Director Graduate Nursing Programs School of Nursing Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 1 Using Research and Statistics in Health Care 1 2 Descriptive Statistics: Getting to Know the Data 20 3 Building Blocks for Using Inferential Statistics 59 4 Inferential Statistics: Finding Relationships in the Data 81 5 The Independent t-Test and the Mann-Whitney U-Test: Comparing the Means of Two Unrelated Groups 102 6 The Paired t-Test and the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Test: Comparing the Means of Two Related Groups 139 7 The One-Way ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis H-Test: Comparing the Means of Three or More Unrelated Groups 171 8 The Repeated-Measures ANOVA and the Friedman’s ANOVA by Rank: Comparing the Means of Three or More Related Groups 213 9 The Pearson and Spearman Correlation Coefficients: Measuring the Association of Two Variables 260 10 The Chi-Square Statistic and the McNemar Test: Examining Relationships Between Categorical Variables 291 11 Model Building With Linear and Logistic Regression 328 12 Writing for Publication 375 Appendix A Percent of Total Area of Normal Curve Between a z-Score and the Mean 385 Appendix B Critical Values of the Student t-Statistic 387 Appendix C Critical Values of “U” for the Mann-Whitney U-Test 389 Appendix D Critical Values of “T,” the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Statistic 391 Appendix E Critical Values of “F” for Testing ANOVA Models 393 Appendix F Critical Values of “H” for the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by Rank 397 Appendix G Critical Values of Dunn’s Q for Nonparametric Multiple Comparison Testing 399 Appendix H Exact Distribution of the Friedman’s - r 2 for the Friedman’s ANOVA by Rank Comparing Three Related Groups 400 Appendix I Significant Values of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient 402 Appendix J Critical Values of the Spearman Correlation Coefficient 404 Appendix K Significant Values of the Chi-Square Statistic 406 Glossary 408 Index 415 [Show More]

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